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A Short History of Pakistan A Short History of Pakistan is an edited book published by University of Karachi Press and comprises of four volumes. The book is edited by Prof Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi and provides a comprehensive account of the history of the Pakistan region and its people from the prehistoric age leading to the creation of Pakistan.
A Short History of Progress The book A Short History of Progress, written by Ronald Wright and published in 2004, grew out of the 2004 Massey Lectures. It describes in particular how four historical civilizations - those of Easter Island, Sumer, the Maya and Rome - self-destructed due to a lack of foresight and to wrong choices.
A Short History of the Confederate States of America A Short History of the Confederate States of America is a memoir written by Jefferson Davis, completed shortly before his death in 1889. Davis wrote most of this book while staying at Beauvoir along the Mississippi Gulf Coast near Biloxi, Mississippi.
A Short, Sharp Shock A Short, Sharp Shock is a novel written by Kim Stanley Robinson and published in 1990. Though Robinson works primarily in the field of science fiction, A Short, Sharp Shock is set in a fantasy world which features, among other things, a tribe who live in close connection to the small trees which grow out of their shoulders.
A Shot in the Dark A Shot in the Dark is a 1964 film directed by Blake Edwards and is the second installment (and considered by many to be the best) in the Pink Panther series. Peter Sellers is featured again as Inspector Jacques Clouseau of the French Sûreté.
A Show of Force A Show of Force is a 1990 film starring Amy Irving, Andy Garcia, Lou Diamond Phillips, Robert Duvall, Kevin Spacey and Erik Estrada, among others, based on events and theories surrounding the Maravilla Hill case in Puerto Rico.
A Show of Hands (video) A Show of Hands is a videocassette/laserdisc released by the Canadian band Rush. Not to be confused with the album of the same name, the video had a slightly different set list, and contains different performances.
A Single Woman (movie) A Single Woman is a 2007 film made by Nevada Shakespeare Company and Heroica Films and distributed by Peace Path Pictures. It was directed by Kamala Lopez-Dawson and produced by Cameron Crain, Richard Shelgren and Kamala Lopez-Dawson.
A Singsong and a Scrap A Singsong and a Scrap is a Chumbawamba album released in 2005. It shows more folk influence than their previous album Un and features guest appearances from Coope Boyes and Simpson, Andy Cutting and John Jones and Ian Telfer of Oysterband.
A Skateboard Party A Skateboard Party is a live album by the Dead Kennedys and was released in August 1983 on Starving Missile Records in cooperation with Alternative Tentacles as a limited edition release. It features the famous exchange where Jello Biafra asks what the audience wants, a girl yells, "Autograph, goddammit!
A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake (1944) by mythologist Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson is an important work of literary criticism. One of the first major texts to provide an indepth analysis of Finnegans Wake (James Joyce's final novel), A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake is considered by many scholars to be a seminal work on the text The term monomyth], which Campbell used to describe his journey of the hero in his book, [[The Hero With a Thousand Faces, came from Finnegans Wake.
A Sketch of the Past A Sketch of the Past is an autobiographical essay written by Virginia Woolf in 1939. It was written as a break from writing her biography of Roger Fry, English artist and critic, and fellow member of The Bloomsbury Group.
A Slice at a Time "A Slice at a Time" is a science fiction short story by author Karen Traviss. The story, which was published in July 2002 in Asimov's Science Fiction, describes human culture interacting with alien culture.
A Slice of Life A Slice of Life was a 1914 American silent short film directed by Tom Ricketts and William Desmond Taylor starring Charlotte Burton, Perry Banks, William Bertram, Edward Coxen, George Field,Winifred Greenwood, John Steppling and Albert Cavens
A Slight Ache A Slight Ache is a play by Harold Pinter about a couple (Edward and Flora) who don't really love each other. Thus, Edward has fears that their marriage will break down which are reflected in the slight ache he feels constantly.
A Small Boy and Others A Small Boy and Others is a book of autobiography by Henry James published in 1913. The book covers James' earliest years and discusses his intellectually active family, his intermittent schooling, and his first trips to Europe.
A Small Cattle Drive in a Snow Storm A Small Cattle Drive in a Snow Storm is a single released by Beulah in 1997, and was recorded after Robert Schneider of The Apples in Stereo, a member of the Elephant 6 collective, took notice of the band. Only 1,000 vinyl copies of the single were pressed, and it is consequently extremely hard to find.
A Small Circle of Friends A Small Circle of Friends is a film released in 1980 by MGM starring Brad Davis, Karen Allen, Jameson Parker, and Shelley Long. The film follows the life of three students (Davis, Allen, Parker) at Harvard University in the 1960s.
A Small Death in Lisbon A Small Death in Lisbon is a 1999 novel by crime-writer Robert Wilson. The novel, set in Portugal, consists of two narratives: one the contemporary investigation by Inspector José "Zé" Coelho into the death of a young girl and the other begins in World War II and examines events during German operations in the country which eventually joins with the main narrative.
A Small Problem A Small Problem is a British sitcom originally broadcast on BBC2 in 1987. Whilst intended as a satire on prejudice, set in a Britain where a form of apartheid is in place based on people's height - anyone below 5ft tall was forced to live in tower-block ghettos south of the River Thames, many viewers appeared not to understand this, and the BBC was flooded with complaints.
A Snoodle's Tale A Snoodle's Tale is the 22nd episode in the VeggieTales animated series, released in mid-2004 on both DVD and VHS formats. Subtitled "A Lesson in Self Worth", the episode focuses on teaching viewers that they are special in God's eyes, that they don't need to have extraordinary talents or resort to gimmicks to be worthy individuals.
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (film) A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries is a French/US film directed by James Ivory and written by James Ivory & Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. The film is a fictionalized account of the family life of writer James Jones and is based on Kaylie Jones' novel by the same name.
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (novel) A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries is semi-autobiography of Kaylie Jones, who was daughter of James Jones. This is a story about childhood in '60s Paris, then high school in '70s US, and she described difference of culture of France and US.
A Soldier's Play "A Soldier's Play" was a Pulitzer Prize-winning drama written by Charles Fuller in 1982. This play uses a murder mystery to explore the complicated feelings of anger and resentment that some black Americans have toward one another, and the ways in which many black Americans have absorbed white racist attitudes.
A Solitary Blue A Solitary Blue is a novel by Cynthia Voigt. It takes place during about the same time as Dicey's Song, another book by Voigt which won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1983.
A Solitary Grief A Solitary Grief (1991) is a novel by Bernice Rubens about a Harley Street doctor who cannot cope with his own life. Increasingly alienated from his wife and daughter, he also considers himself unable to help his patients any longer and decides to start a new life together with a newly-found friend.
A Song for the Lovers "A Song for the Lovers" is a song by English singer-songwriter Richard Ashcroft and is the opening track on his 2000 album, Alone with Everybody. It was the first single from the album, released 3 April 2000 (see 2000 in British music).
A Song for You "A Song for You" is a 1970 song written and originally performed by rock singer/songwriter Leon Russell. A slow, pained plea for forgiveness from an estranged lover, the tune was one of Russell's best-known songs.
A Song for You (Temptations album) A Song for You is a 1975 album by the Motown singing group The Temptations, considered one of their best overall efforts. The album features two R&B number-one hits, "Happy People" (originally intended for recording by its authors, The Commodores), and "Shakey Ground", the Temptations' final R&B number-one.
A Song of Islands A Song of Islands is a tone poem (more properly described by the composer as a song) written for orchestra by New Zealand composer Douglas Lilburn in 1946. The work is the last in a trilogy of pieces exploring the theme of New Zealand identity; it was preceded by the overture Aotearoa and Landfall in Unknown Seas for narrator and string orchestra.
A Song to Remember A Song to Remember is a 1945 Columbia Pictures biographical film which tells the life story of pianist and composer Frédéric Chopin. It was directed by Charles Vidor and produced by Sidney Buchman and Louis F.
A Soul Astray A Soul Astray was a 1914 American silent popular short film directed by William Desmond Taylor starring Charlotte Burton, William Bertram, Edith Borella, Edward Coxen (as Ed Coxen), B. Reeves Eason, George Field and Winifred Greenwood
A Sound Like Someone Trying Not to Make a Sound A Sound Like Someone Trying Not to Make a Sound (Doubleday Books for Young Readers, September 28, 2004, ISBN 0-385-74680-6) is a children's picture book by John Irving, and is also a story from the 1998 novel A Widow for One Year, also by Irving.
A Sound of Thunder "A Sound of Thunder" is a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury, first published in Collier's magazine in 1952. It was reprinted in his collections The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953), R is for Rocket (1962), The Stories of Ray Bradbury (1980), and A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories (2005).
A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories (2005) is a collection of thirty-two of the most famous short stories by Ray Bradbury. The book was previously published under the title The Golden Apples of the Sun (1997).
A Southern Maid A Southern Maid is an operetta in three acts composed by Harold Fraser-Simson, with a book by Dion Clayton Calthrop and Harry Graham and lyrics by Harry Graham and Harry Miller. Additional music was provided by Ivor Novello and G.
A Spanish Piece "A Spanish Piece" is a short track from Pink Floyd's Music from the Film More album running for 1:04 minutes. It is an instrumental using the typical Spanish riff accompanied by vocalisations in the background done by David Gilmour.
A Spectacle of Corruption A Spectacle of Corruption is a novel by David Liss set in 18th century London. It continues the narrative of Benjamin Weaver, a Jewish former pugilist and current thief-taker begun in Liss's A Conspiracy of Paper.
A Specter is Haunting Texas A Specter is Haunting Texas (1968) is a science fiction novel by Fritz Leiber's The novel anticipates both the "Texasassination" of culture and politics in the United States (then and now) and the construction of low gravity orbital communities, presenting a dystopia both alien and terrifyingly familiar.
A Spectrum of Finite Scale A Spectrum of Finite Scale is a tour-only album by Man or Astro-man? A departure from their familiar space-surf instrumentals, A Spectrum Of Finite Scale is a compilation of experiments produced by members of the Man or Astro-Man?
A Splash Party Please A Splash Party Please is the 23rd episode in season 1 in the Barney and Friends television show which airs on PBS. The episode features Bob West as the voice of Barney, West was featured on the show from 1992 - 2001.
A Split-Second A Split-Second was a successful synth rock/new beat/EBM band from Belgium. The duo - Mark Ickx and Peter Bonne (under the artist name Chrismar Chayell) - were active from their debut in 1986 until they split up in 1991, when A Split-Second continued as a solo project.
A Spooky Night in Disney's Haunted Mansion (1998 Cassette) A Spooky Night in Disney's Haunted Mansion (1998 Cassette) The original terrifying tale with scary sounds, chilling chants, horrible hosts, and the song "Grim Grinning Ghosts". Reissue of the 1969 The Haunted Mansion LP.
A Sportsman's Sketches A Sportsman's Sketches (also known as The Hunting Sketches and Sketches from a Hunter's Album) was an 1852 collection of short stories by Ivan Turgenev. It was the first major writing that gained him recognition.
A Star Is Born (1954 film) A Star Is Born is a 1954 musical remake of the original 1937 film, directed by George Cukor and starring Judy Garland and James Mason. Musical highlights included "The Man That Got Away" and the "Born in a Trunk" sequence.
A Star Is Born (1976 film) A Star Is Born is a 1976 rock music film telling the story of a young woman, played by Barbra Streisand who enters show business, and meets and falls in love with an established male star, played by Kris Kristofferson, only to find her career ascending while his goes into decline. It is a remake of two earlier versions – the 1937 version was a drama starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, and the 1954 version was a musical film starring Judy Garland and James Mason.
A State of Mind A State of Mind is a 2004 documentary film directed by Daniel Gordon. The film follows two North Korean child gymnasts and their families for over eight months during training for the 2003 Pyongyang mass games.
A Statue for Father A Statue For Father is a humorous science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. The story first appeared in the February 1959 issue of Satellite Science Fiction and was reprinted in the 1975 collection Buy Jupiter and Other Stories.
A Step into the Past A Step into the Past (Chinese: 尋秦č¨; literal translation: The Chronicles of Finding Qin) is a Hong Kong television drama produced by TVB, released in 2001 and adapted from the novel Xun Qin Ji by Huang Yi. It tells the story of a 21st century Hong Kong cop, Hong Siu Lung, who travels back in time to the Warring States Period of China, and finds himself involved in important history events leading to the unification of China.
A Stone for Danny Fisher A Stone For Danny Fisher is a very serious, early novel by Harold Robbins that looks at the effect of the Great Depression on a lower-middle class Jewish family. Written in 1952 it is actually set in the period up to 1944.
A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder is the most popular book by James De Mille. It was serialized posthumously in Harper's Weekly, and published in book form by Harper and Brothers of New York City in 1888.
A Streetcar Named Desire (film) A Streetcar Named Desire is an Academy Award-winning 1951 film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name by Tennessee Williams. It was directed by Elia Kazan, who directed the original stage production, and starred Marlon Brando (Stanley Kowalski), Vivien Leigh (Blanche DuBois), Kim Hunter and Karl Malden.
A Streetcar Named Desire (opera) A Streetcar Named Desire is an opera composed by André Previn with a libretto by Philip Littell in 1995. It is based on the play by Tennessee Williams and received its premiere at the San Francisco Opera during the 1998-99 season.
A Study in Emerald "A Study in Emerald" is a short story written by British fantasy and comic book author Neil Gaiman. A Sherlock Holmes pastiche, and the title itself is a parody of the classic Sherlock Holmes tale A Study in Scarlet.
A Study in Scarlet A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and published in 1887. It is significant as the first story to feature the character of Sherlock Holmes, who would later go on to become one of the most famous and iconic literary detective characters, with long-lasting interest and appeal.
A Sultan's Ransom A Sultan's Ransom, released in 1989, is the final album released by the NWOBHM band Cloven Hoof before they spilt up a year later. This album is generally regarded as the band's finest hour and is often hailed as an underground classic.
A Summons to Memphis A Summons to Memphis is a 1986 novel by Peter Taylor which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1987. It is the recollection of Phillip Carver, a middle aged editor from New York City, who is summoned back to Memphis by his two conniving unmmarried sisters to help them prevent the marriage of their elderly father to a younger woman.
A Swarm of Angels A Swarm of Angels (ASOA) is a open source film project, whose aim is to make the world’s first Internet-funded, crewed and distributed feature film. The collaborative project aims to attract 50,000 individual subscribers (the "Swarm of Angels"), each contributing £25 to the production.
A Sword for a Dragon A Sword for a Dragon (1993) is a fantasy novel written by Christopher Rowley. The book is the second in the Dragons of the Argonath series that follows the adventures of a human boy, Relkin, and his dragon, Bazil Broketail as they fight in the Argonath Legion’s 109th Marneri Dragons.
A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits In his 1937 MIT master's thesis, A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits, Claude Elwood Shannon proved that Boolean algebra and binary arithmetic could be used to simplify the arrangement of the electromechanical relays then used in telephone routing switches, then turned the concept upside down and also proved that it should be possible to use arrangements of relays to solve Boolean algebra problems. This concept, of utilizing the properties of electrical switches to do logic, is the basic concept that underlies all electronic digital computers, and the thesis became the foundation of practical digital circuit design when it became widely known among the electrical engineering community during and after World War II.
A Symphony of Lights A Symphony of Lights (Chinese: ĺą»ĺ˝©č© é¦™ć±ź) is an orchestrated light and laser show featured on buildings are situated on both sides of the Victoria Harbour of Hong Kong. It spends around 44 million HK dollars in total, and has been attracted over 4 million visitors and locals.
A Tale in the Desert A Tale in the Desert (ATITD) is a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG) set in Ancient Egypt. The administrator of the game, or as it is called in game, the Pharaoh, is Andrew "Teppy" Tepper.
A Tale of a Tub (play) A Tale of a Tub is a Caroline era stage play, a comedy written by Ben Jonson. The last of his plays to be staged during his lifetime, A Tale of a Tub was performed in 1633 and published in 1640 in the second folio of Jonson's works.
A Taste for Death (Modesty Blaise) A Taste for Death is the title of an action-adventure novel by Peter O'Donnell which was first published in 1969, featuring the character Modesty Blaise which O'Donnell had created for a comic strip several years earlier. It was the fourth novel to feature the character.
A Taste of Armageddon "A Taste of Armageddon" is a first-season episode of Star Trek: The Original Series. First broadcast on February 23 1967 and repeated July 20, 1967, episode #23, production #23, and was written by Robert Hamner and Gene L.
A Taste of Honey A Taste of Honey is the first play by British dramatist Shelagh Delaney, written at the age of 19. First produced at London's Royal Court Theatre in 1958, it transferred to Wyndham's Theatre in the West End the following year.
A Taste of Tippecanoe A Taste of Tippecanoe is a one-day summer festival held in downtown Lafayette, Indiana in early summer. The festival, which generally draws around 50,000 people, focuses on providing visitors a wide selection of foods from community restaurants, plus live musical entertainment.
A Taxing Woman 2 A Taxing Woman 2, also titled A Taxing Woman's Return (Japanese title ăžă«ă‚µă®ĺĄł2, Marusa no onna 2) is a 1988 Japanese comedy film written and directed by Juzo Itami. It is the sequel to Itami's 1987 comedy A Taxing Woman.
A Tempestade A Tempestade (or O Livro dos Dias) is the eighth album by Brazilian rock band LegiĂŁo Urbana, recorded during the first semester of 1996 and released on the Emi-Odeon label on september 20, 1996, few days before Renato Russo's death. By this time, Russo was living a mostly reclusive life because of his disease, avoided doing interviews and having his pictures taken.
A Tenured Professor A Tenured Professor (1990) is a satirical novel by Canadian/American economist and Professor Emeritus at Harvard, John Kenneth Galbraith, about a liberal university teacher who sets out to change American society by making money and then using it for the public good. Set at Harvard mainly during the Reagan administration, the plot and all the characters that appear in the story are entirely fictitious.
A Terrible Revenge A Terrible Revenge: The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Germans, 1944-1950 is a book by Alfred-Maurice de Zayas based on testimonials of German civilians and military describing war atrocities committed by the Soviet Army at the end of World War II.
A Terrible Vengeance A Terrible Vengeance (Russian: СтраŃная меŃть) is a Gothic horror story by Nikolai Gogol. It was published in the second volume of his first short story collection, Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, in 1832.
A Test of the News A Test of the News is a 1920 study done by Walter Lippmann, a US journalist and Charles Merz. They examined press coverage of the Bolshevik revolution for a three year period beginning with the overthrow of the tsar in February 1917.
A Theory of Fun for Game Design A Theory of Fun for Game Design is a book written and illustrated by Raph Koster. It is based upon a presentation Koster gave at the Austin Game Conference in 2003, and the book reflects its origins by displaying text on one page and a cartoon/graphic from the talk on the other page.
A Theory of Relativity A Theory of Relativity (ISBN 0-06-103199-2) is a 2001 novel written by American author Jacquelyn Mitchard. The book tells the story of a custody battle for a young girl following the sudden death of her parents.
A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism is a treatise by Hans-Hermann Hoppe, a student of JĂĽrgen Habermas, which uses the ethics of argumentation, a Habermasian principle, as the foundation for self-ownership and private property as ethical principles.
A Thousand Clowns A Thousand Clowns is a 1965 film which tells the story of a young boy who lives with his eccentric uncle, who is forced to conform to society in order to keep custody of the boy. It stars Jason Robards, Barbara Harris, Martin Balsam, Gene Saks, William Daniels and Barry Gordon.
A Thousand Miles "A Thousand Miles" is a pop song written by American singer Vanessa Carlton and recorded for her debut album Be Not Nobody (2002). It was co-produced and co-arranged by Carlton and Ron Fair, and was released as the album's first single in 2002 (see 2002 in music).
A Thousand Plateaus A Thousand Plateaus (French: Mille Plateaux) (1980) is a book by the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the psychoanalyst Félix Guattari. It forms the second part of their Capitalism and Schizophrenia duo (the first part being Anti-Œdipus).
A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (hereafter known as ATYNH) is a 1997 book by Manuel De Landa. The book forms part of the ongoing project of De Landa to apply dynamical systems theory and its ilk to such diverse fields as history, analytical science and realist philosophy, challenging prevailing paradigms in each instance.
A Three Rivers District The A Three Rivers District is a high school conference of the Virginia High School League which draws most of its members from the New River Valley. The lone exception is Glenvar High School, which is located in western Roanoke County.
A Tidewater District The A Tidewater District is a high school conference in the state of Virginia that is comprised of high schools located west of the Hampton Roads metropolitan area. The Tidewater District schools compete in A Region A with the schools from the A/AA Eastern Shore District, the A Northern Neck District, and the A Tri-Rivers District of the Virginia High School League.
A Time for Burning A Time for Burning is a 1966 documentary film which explores the attempts of the minister of Augustana Lutheran Church in Omaha, Nebraska, to persuade his all-white congregation to reach out to "negro" Lutherans in the city. The film was directed by San Francisco filmmaker William C.
A Time for Judas A Time for Judas is a novel by Canadian author Morley Callaghan, published by Macmillan of Canada in 1983. It tells the story of a man in modern times who discovers tablets written by a scribe named Philo of Crete or Philo the Greek.
A Time for Miracles A Time For Miracles is a 1980 made for TV film chronicling the life story of America's first native born saint, Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton. It was produced by ABC Circle Films for the American Broadcasting Company and telecast December 21, 1980 as a Christmas special.
A Time Of Gifts A Time of Gifts is regarded by many observers as one of the classics of travel literature. Written by Patrick Leigh Fermor and published in 1977 when he was 62, it is the first of two volumes (the second being Between the Woods and the Water) that provide an account of the author's overland walking trip from the Hook of Holland to the Danube in 1933/34.
A Time to Kill A Time to Kill is the name of a legal suspense thriller authored by John Grisham in 1989. Grisham's first novel, it was rejected by many publishers before Wynwood Press eventually gave it a modest 5,000-copy printing.
A Time to Kill (film) A Time to Kill is the name of a 1996 feature film adaptation of the 1989 legal thriller A Time to Kill by John Grisham. The movie made $108,766,007, including $19,628,271 for the first five days of its theatrical release.
A Time to Love A Time to Love is a 2005 studio album by Stevie Wonder, his first since 1995's Conversation Peace. Originally to have been completed in 2004, it was finally released to stores on October 18, 2005, following an exclusive electronic release on Apple's iTunes Music Store on September 27.
A Time To Tell A Time To Tell is the name of a youth protection training video produced by the Boy Scouts of America. The video is aimed at boys aged 11-14, and teaches how to avoid child molestation using the three Rs of youth protection: Recognize, Resist, and Report.
A Toast to Those Who Are Gone A Toast To Those Who Are Gone was a 1986 compilation of recordings that Phil Ochs made in the early-to-mid 1960s, mostly between his contracts with Elektra Records and A&M Records. In line with recordings made on the former, Ochs espouses his left-leaning views on civil rights on songs like "Ballad of Oxford", "Going Down To Mississippi" and "Colored Town", his views on worker's rights on "No Christmas in Kentucky", his attack on the American Medical Association on "A.
A Toccata of Galuppi's A Toccata of Galuppi's is a poem by Robert Browning, originally publishing in the 1855 collection Men and Women. The title refers to the fact that the speaker is either playing or listening to a toccata by the Venetian composer Baldassarre Galuppi.
A Token of My Extreme "A Token of My Extreme", by Frank Zappa, is a song on the 1979 concept album Joe's Garage. The main character from this triple-album rock-opera has his mind messed-up by Lucille then "finally does something right" and "pays a lot of money to L.
A Tom Moulton Mix A Tom Moulton Mix is a phrase indicating that a dance record had been mixed by Tom Moulton. Prior to Moulton (and throughout his active years), no major player had prefaced their name with "A" and followed it with "Mix".
A Toot and a Snore in '74 A Toot and a Snore in '74 was a bootleg album of the final recording session in which John Lennon and Paul McCartney played together, which gained wider prominence when McCartney made reference to the session in a 1997 interview. Lennon did the same in an 1975 interview.
A Touch of Glass A Touch of Glass is an episode of the BBC sit-com, Only Fools and Horses, first screened on 2 December 1982 as the final episode of series 2. It was the first episode of the show to attract over 10 million viewers.
A Touch of Magic A Touch of Magic is a 1961 musical Ephemeral film about a married couple who experience the "magic of the present." It begins with a designer at the drawing board, daydreaming about a 1920s couple who travel to the middle ages.
A Touch of Spice "A Touch of Spice" is a Greek movie released in 2003 directed by Tassos Boulmetis and starring Georges Corraface. The original Greek title was Πολίτικη Κουζίνα (Politiki Kouzina) which means Cuisine of the City and refers to the Greek cuisine of Constantinople (Istanbul).
A Touch of Zen A Touch of Zen (ă€Šäż ĺĄłă€‹ Hsia nu) is a 1969 wuxia film directed by King Hu, and made in Taiwan. The movie won siginificant critical acclaim and became the first Chinese action film ever to win a prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
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