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The Cosmic Circus The Cosmic Circus is a fake radio show hosted by a vain, self-obsessed, neurotic superstar named Perrynoid who suffers from delusions of grandeur. Not content to let reality and fiction lie on opposite sides of the river, Perrynoid fearlessly combines both - using satire and parody to blur the line.
The Cosmic Comet The Cosmic Comet is a first season episode of the cartoon series He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, produced in 1983. It was the first script to be approved for production and is therefore the first episode in the show's production order, but not the first to be screened, airing slightly later into the first season's original run.
The Cosmopolitan Resort & Casino The Cosmopolitan Resort & Casino is a resort casino and condo that broke ground in October 2005 just south of the Bellagio on the west side of the Las Vegas Strip. When it opens in mid 2009, the $2 billion project will feature 2,200 condominium-hotel units; 800 hotel rooms; a 75,000 sq ft casino; 300,000 sq ft of retail and restaurant space; a 40,000 sq ft spa and fitness facility; an 1,800 seat theater; and 150,000 sq ft of meeting/convention space.
The Cost The Cost is the sixth studio album by The Frames, released in Ireland on Plateau Records on September 22, 2006. The album exhibits a sound more like that of For the Birds than their more recent album Burn the Maps.
The Cost (The Wire episode) "The Cost" is the tenth episode of the first season of the HBO original series, The Wire. The episode was written by David Simon from a story by David Simon & Ed Burns and was directed by Brad Anderson.
The Cost of Accidents The Cost of Accidents: A Legal and Economic Analysis (1970) by Guido Calabresi is a very important work in the law and economics tradition because it provides an economic efficiency analysis of the rules of tort law. The important goal of tort law may not be the absolute minimization of the occurrence of loss from accidents because the total accident cost of any economic activity (i.
The Coterie The Coterie comprised a fashionable and famous set of English aristocrats and intellectuals of the 1910s, widely quoted and profiled in magazines and newspapers of the period. It adopted the hostile description as a "corrupt coterie".
The Cougar Cottage Better known as "The Coug" by Washington State University students, the Cougar Cottage is located in the heart of the campus at Washington State University. It is the oldest bar on in Pullman, operating for over 70 years and is known by students for its small confines and great environment.
The Council of Christians and Jews The Council of Christians and Jews, or CCJ, is a voluntary organisation in the United Kingdom. It is comprised of Christians and Jews working together to counter anti-semitism and other forms of intolerance in Britain.
The Council on Podiatric Medical Education The Council on Podiatric Medical Education (CPME) is an autonomous accrediting agency for podiatric medical education. Deriving its authority from the House of Delegates of the American Podiatric Medical Association, the Council is empowered to develop and adopt standards and policies as necessary for the implementation of all aspects of its accreditation, approval, and recognition purview.
The Councillor of State The Councillor of State (Russian: СтатŃкий Ńоветник) is the seventh novel in the Erast Fandorin series by Boris Akunin. It is subtitled политичеŃкий детектив ("political detective").
The Count of Luxembourg The Count of Luxembourg is an operetta in two acts with lyrics by Basil Hood and Adrian Ross, music by Franz Lehár, adapted by Basil Hood from from the German "Der Graf von Luxemburg" (with a book by A.M.
The Count of Monte Cristo The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is a classic adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered, along with The Three Musketeers, as Dumas' best work, and is frequently included on lists of the best novels of all time.
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002 film) The Count of Monte Cristo is a 2002 film based upon the book The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas, père. It was directed by Kevin Reynolds and starred James Caviezel, Dagmara Dominczyk, and Guy Pearce. It loosely follows the general plot of the novel (the main storyline of imprisonment and revenge is preserved), but many aspects, including the relationships between major characters and the ending, have been changed, simplified, or removed. It was criticized for these changes by some scholars of the book, who saw the changes as reducing the dramatic power and moral insight of the novel. The movie met with mediocre box office success, bringing in about $54 million overall.
The Count of Monte Cristo (film) The Count of Monte Cristo has been adapted to many screen versions, including several films, numerous TV series and an anime series. It has been estimated that this story has been filmed once every eighteen months from 1920 on.
The Count of Monte Cristo (TV series) The Count of Monte Cristo was a 1956 ITC Entertainment television series adapted very loosely from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, adapted by Sidney Marshall. It premiered in the UK in early 1956 and ran for 39 30-minute episodes.
The Counterfeiters The Counterfeiters (Les faux-monnayeurs) is a 1925 novel by French author André Gide, first published in Nouvelle Revue Française. It is written in slice-of-life form with many characters and crisscrossing plotlines.
The Counterplot The Counterplot is the second novel by Hope Mirrlees. Written in 1923, it was originally published in 1924, and is the only one of Mirrlees's three novels to take place in then contemporary settings, Madeleine: One of Love's Jansenists (1919) being a historical novel, while Lud-in-the-Mist (1926) is a fantasy.
The Country Boy The Country Boy: A Play in Three Acts is a play by Irish playwright, John Murphy (1929-1998). Himself a country boy and native of Charlestown, County Mayo) who emigrated to the United States of America, The Country Boy reflects on the social problems of emigration and rural life in the late 1950's.
The Country Club The Country Club, located in Brookline, Massachusetts, is the oldest country club in the United States. It holds an important place in golf history, as it was one of the five charter clubs which founded the United States Golf Association, and has hosted numerous USGA tournaments including the famous 1913 U.
The Country Code The Country Code was a set of rules aimed at visitors to rural, and especially agricultural, regions of the United Kingdom. The Country Code evolved from the work of various organisations and had several different versions from the 1930s.
The Country Gentlemen The Country Gentlemen are a bluegrass band originating in the area of Washington, DC, United States. The band started on July 4 1957 as a replacement group for Buzz Busby’s Bayou Boys when several members of that band were injured in a car accident.
The Country Girl (1915 film) The Country Girl is a 1915 silent film, starring Florence La Badie, based on David Garrick's 18th century play of the same name. Garrick's play was a version of William Wycherley's Restoration-era comedy, The Country Wife, itself based on works by the French playwright Molière.
The Country Girl (1954 film) The Country Girl is a 1954 film adapted by George Seaton from a Clifford Odets play of the same name, which tells the story of a has-been singer/actor who is given one last chance to star in a musical, only to have his alcoholism hinder his chances. It stars Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly and William Holden.
The Country of the Kind "The Country of the Kind" is a science fiction short story by Damon Knight, the founder of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. It was first published in 1955 and later collected in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume One, 1929-1964, published in 1970.
The Country of the Pointed Firs The Country of the Pointed Firs is an 1896 novel by Sarah Orne Jewett which is considered by some literary critics to be her finest work. Henry James described it as her "beautiful little quantum of achievement.
The Country Wife The Country Wife is a Restoration comedy written in 1675 by William Wycherley. A product of the tolerant early Restoration period, the play reflects an aristocratic and anti-Puritan ideology, and was controversial for its sexual explicitness even in its own time.
The County Fair The County Fair was a 1912 short silent film drama. The film starred Earle Foxe and Alice Joyce who had acted together earlier in the year in The Street Singer It was the second film of Earle Foxe aged seventeen.
The County Medical Examiners The County Medical Examiners are an American goregrind band, whose intended purpose is to emulate the classic goregrind of the 1980s - the early albums of Carcass. The band is a power trio of actual medical examiners (at the time of their first releases they were still doing their studies) comprising Dr Morton Fairbanks on guitar and vocals, Dr Jack Putnam on drums and vocals, and Dr Guy Radcliff on bass and vocals.
The Courage to Heal The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (first published in 1988) is a book written by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis, aimed at a female audience who have suffered child sexual abuse and who seek to overcome the associated trauma generated by it.
The Courier The Courier & Advertiser, more commonly known as simply The Courier, is a broadsheet newspaper published by DC Thomson in Dundee, Scotland. It is printed in six daily editions: the Early edition, and regional editions for Fife, north-east Fife, Perth, Angus and Dundee.
The Courier (magazine) The Courier was until recently the oldest game magazine in existence. Started in 1968 by war-gaming enthusiasts Dick Bryant and Bob Beattie as a newsletter of the New England Wargamers Association, The Courier underwent a glossy reboot starting in 1979.
The Courier's Tragedy The Courier's Tragedy is a fictional play created by Thomas Pynchon as a part of his novel, The Crying of Lot 49. In the book it is attributed to Richard Wharfinger, and plays an important role as a turning point for the novel's plot.
The Courier-Journal The Courier-Journal, nicknamed the "C-J", is the main newspaper for the city of Louisville, Kentucky, USA. According to the 1999 Editor & Publisher International Yearbook, the paper is the 48th largest daily paper in the United States and the single largest in Kentucky.
The Couriers The Couriers is a series of graphic novels created and written by Brian Wood and illustrated by Rob G. It depicts the near-future world of New York City where two gun toting couriers deliver questionable goods by questionable means.
The Courtship of Eddie's Father The Courtship of Eddie's Father is a 1963 comedy film directed by Vincente Minnelli. It tells the story of a widower played by Glenn Ford, with a young son played by Ron Howard who believes his father should marry but disapproves of the women his father is interested in.
The Courtship of Miles Standish The Courtship of Miles Standish is an 1858 narrative poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow set in the early days of the Plymouth Colony. It concerns the romance of Miles Standish and Priscilla Mullens and her subsequent marriage to John Alden.
The Cover Girls The Cover Girls are a New York City-based Freestyle, Urban/Dance-Pop trio, the brainchild of music promoter Sal Abbatiello. In 1987, the trio consisted of Louise Sabater (who is also known as Angel Clivillés), Caroline Jackson and Sunshine Wright.
The Covered Wagon The Covered Wagon is a 1923 American silent Western feature film released by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by James Cruze based on a novel by Emerson Hough about a group of pioneers travelling through the old West from Kansas to Oregon.
The Covode Committee During the spring and summer of 1860, the Repubican 36th Congress through a select committee chaired by John Covode of Pennsylvania investigated the possible impeachment of President James Buchanan. Baker, Jean H.
The Cowboy Way (film) The Cowboy Way is a 1994 action comedy directed by Gregg Champion. It stars Woody Harrelson and Kiefer Sutherland as championship rodeo stars and lifelong best friends, who travel from New Mexico to New York in search of their missing friend/mentor Nacho Salazar (played by JoaquĂn MartĂnez).
The Cowboy's Flute The Cowboy's Flute (Chinese: 牧笛, Mu Di) is a Chinese animated feature film produced by Shanghai Animation Film Studio under the master animator Te Wei. It is also referred to as "The Cowboy's Flute", "The Cowherd's Flute", "The Buffalo Boy and his Flute".
The Cownappers The Cownappers (1958) is a children's book by the English writer Monica Edwards, set at Punch Bowl Farm in Surrey. It is notable as one of the first Monica Edwards books in which wider social tensions - notably the encroaching Americanisation of British culture and the threat supposedly posed by the Communist bloc - come to the fore.
The Cowsills The Cowsills were a band specializing in what would later be defined as "Pop" or "Bubblegum" Rock. The band was formed in the spring of 1965 by four brothers — Barry, Bill, Bob, and John Cowsill — in Newport, Rhode Island.
The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad is a comic science fiction novel and social satire written by controversial Edmonton, Alberta, Canada writer and activist Malcolm Azania under the pen name of "Minister Faust". His first book, it received major international release in August 2004 by the publisher Random House.
The COED Project The COED Project COED = COmmunications and EDiting, was an innovative software project created by the Computer Division of NOAA, US Department of Commerce in Boulder, Colorado. This project was designed, purchased and implemented by the in-house computing staff rather than a manufacturer or university research department.
The COINTELPRO Papers The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret War Against Domestic Dissent is a book by Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall. It is a history of the FBI's COINTELPRO efforts to disrupt dissident political organizations within the United States.
The CP80 Foundation The CP80 Foundation is a non-profit, 501 c6 organization that is working towards creating a more individualized and responsive Internet by categorizing all content on the Web into Internet channels using port technology. With content organized into Internet channels, an individual could choose between a cleaner, safer community Internet and an unregulated open Internet for content that is inappropriate for minors, including material such as pornography.
The Crab and the Monkey The Crab and the Monkey is a Japanese fairy tale collected in Japanische Mahrchen. Yei Theodora Ozaki included it in Japanese Fairy Tales,Yei Theodora Ozaki, Japanese Fairy Tales, "The Quarrel of Tee Monkey and the Crab" and Andrew Lang, somewhat euphemized, in The Crimson Fairy Book.
The Crab with the Golden Claws The Crab with the Golden Claws (Le Crabe aux pinces d'or) is one of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. It is also the first to feature Tintin's longtime friend, Captain Haddock.
The Cracow Klezmer Band The Cracow Klezmer Band is a Polish quartet formed by accordionist and composer Jarosław Bester in 1997. Its sound is different from what most people consider to be klezmer — instead of danceable versions of traditional Yiddish songs, and free-form fantasies and laments, the Cracow Klezmer Band instead plays gloomy and repetitive original music.
The Craft (film) The Craft is a 1996 movie directed by Andrew Fleming about a girl who moves to Los Angeles, California from San Francisco, California and meets three friends who teach her about the world of witchcraft. As they become more adept at witchcraft, they experience good fortune, and put curses on their enemies.
The Craig School The Craig School is a private coeducational day school located in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, United States, serving students in third through twelfth grade. The school has an enrollment of 160 students split between a Lower School (grades 3-8) and Upper School (9-12).
The Cramps The Cramps are a rock band originally formed in 1972. Their line-up has rotated much over the years, with Lux Interior and Poison Ivy, the lead singer and lead guitarist respectively as the only permanent members.
The Crash (band) The Crash are a pop-rock band from Turku, Finland, influenced by Britpop. The band formed after Teemu Brunila and Samuli Haataja met in 1991, with both Erkki Kaila and Dani Aavinen joining to complete the line up.
The Craving The Craving was a 1916 American silent short film directed by Charles Bartlett starring Charlotte Burton, William Russell, Helene Rosson as Margaret Cummings, Rae Berger as Leroy Calhoun, Roy Stewart as Oliver Bailey and Robert Miller.
The Craving (album) The Craving is an album by MD.45, which was a side project of Megadeth guitarist/frontman Dave Mustaine along with Fear guitarist/vocalist Lee Ving on singing duties, bassist Kelly LeMieux and former Suicidal Tendencies and Alice Cooper drummer Jimmy DeGrasso.
The Crazies The Crazies, also known as Code Name Trixie, is a 1973 American horror film about the effects of an accidental release of a military biological weapon on the inhabitants of an American town. It was written and directed by George A.
The Crazy 8's The Crazy 8's were a regional band from the Pacific Northwest of the United States, scoring several college radio chart hits ("Johnny Q.", "Law & Order") before disbanding sometime in the 1990s.
The Crazy Gang The Crazy Gang were a group of British entertainers who got together in the early 1930s, they achieved great national popularity and were a favourite of the royal family, especially King George VI. The members were: Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Jimmy Nervo, Teddy Knox, Charlie Naughton and Jimmy Gold and sometimes 'Monsewer' Eddie Gray.
The Creation The Creation (German: Die Schöpfung) is an oratorio written between 1796 and 1798 by Joseph Haydn, and considered by many to be his masterpiece. The oratorio depicts and celebrates the creation of the world as described in the biblical Book of Genesis.
The Creation of Adam The Creation of Adam is a fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo Buonarroti circa 1511. It illustrates the Biblical story from the Book of Genesis in which God the Father breathes life into Adam, the first man.
The Creator's Rights Party The Creator's Rights Party is a third party founded by Neal Horsley. On Saturday, September 3, 2005, the 2-year anniversary of the execution of Paul Jennings Hill, The Creator's Rights Party held a "flag warning ceremony" in Pensacola, Florida.
The Creators The Creators is a non-fiction work of cultural history by Daniel Boorstin published in 1992 and is the second volume in what has become known as the Knowledge Trilogy. It was preceded by The Discoverers and succeeded by The Seekers.
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The Creed of the Kromon The Creed of the Kromon is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is the first story to feature Conrad Westmaas as the new companion C'rizz.
The Creep (Comics) Way back in 1991, John Arcudi approached Dale Eaglesham with this idea of a comic book about a man suffering from acromegaly, a debilitating disease which causes your bones to enlarge and become brittle. John and Dale then developed it together, creating the poignant tale of Oxel Karnhaus, a man whose face caused heads to turn, to say the least.
The Creeper (Jeepers Creepers) The Creeper is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the popular horror movie series Jeepers Creepers. He is an ancient demon who feeds on human beings for twenty-three days every twenty-third Spring.
The Crest of The Sri Lanka Army Command and Staff College The Crest of The Sri Lanka Army Command and Staff College consists of the Wise Old Owl appears in the legends of King Arthur, where Merlin is described as having an owl perched on his shoulder. Owls generally became widely accepted as symbols of learning and in the Middle Ages knowledge was vastly vested in the clergy and alchemists.
The Crests The Crests were a popular New York City R&B musical group of the late 1950s, often thought to be another all-black teenage-sound band, they were in fact about as integrated as a group could get, with four men (two of them black, one Puerto Rican and one Italian) and one black female.
The Crestwood School The Crestwood School is a secondary school located in Kingswinford, West Midlands, England. It was originally built during the 1930s as Brierley Hill Grammar School but went comprehensive about 30 years later and has since expanded to serve the eastern area of Kingswinford which was mainly developed after the Second World War.
The Cretan Chronicles The Cretan Chronicles is a trilogy of single-player role-playing fantasy gamebooks written by John Butterfield, David Honigmann and Philip Parker, published in the mid to late 1980's. The style in which they are written is often compared to that of the popular Fighting Fantasy.
The Cretones The Cretones were a Los Angeles based new wave and power pop group in the early 1980s. Led by singer/guitarist & former Eddie Boy Band member Mark Goldenberg, who also wrote the bulk of The Cretones' material, the group had a strong sense of melody and a lyrical wit that placed them a cut above most of their new wave peers.
The Crew (TV series) The Crew was a primetime television sitcom that aired from August 1995 to June 1996 on the Fox Network in the United States. The show followed the lives of a group of flight attendants working for the fictitious Regency Airlines; who lived together in the South Beach section of Miami, Florida.
The Crew of the Flying Saucer The Crew Of The Flying Saucer was former The Minutemen/fIREHOSE bassist Mike Watt's second touring band, formed to continue touring behind his first solo album, 1995's Ball-Hog or Tugboat?. The band consisted of, along with Watt on bass and vocals, guitarist Nels Cline and two drummers, Vince Meghrouni and Michael Preussner.
The Crew-Cuts The Crew-Cuts were a Canadian] vocal quartet that made a number of [[popular music|popular records that charted in the United States of America. They named themselves after the popular crew cut haircut, one of the first connections made between pop music and hairstyle.
The Crewnecks The Crewnecks were a popular music singing group from 1957 to 1961 composed of five students from Wilkes College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania: Boyd Hoats, Bruce Miles, Jerry Pauley, Bob Martin, and Larry Chase (Choper).
The Cricket on the Hearth The Cricket on the Hearth is a novella by Charles Dickens, written in 1845. It is the third of Dickens' five Christmas books, the others being A Christmas Carol (1843), The Chimes (1844), The Battle of Life (1846), and The Haunted Man (1847).
The Cricket Society The Cricket Society is an organization founded at Great Scotland Yard in London, England in 1945 ,which brings cricket lovers together from every walk of life and every level of the game to share their love and passion and to foster this interest in others. Through its charitable trust, it raises money to coach underprivileged children cricket.
The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal is a science fiction short story by Cordwainer Smith, set in Smith's "Instrumentality" universe. It was first published in Amazing Stories in May 1964, and is collected in The Rediscovery of Man compendium.
The Crime at Black Dudley The Crime at the Black Dudley, also known in the United States as The Black Dudley Murder, is a crime novel by Margery Allingham, first published in 1929, in the United Kingdom by Jarrolds, London and in the United States by Doubleday Doran, New York. It introduces Albert Campion, her misleadingly vapid detective, who would go on to appear in another 18 novels and many short stories over the next 30 years.
The Crime of Napoleon The Crime of Napoleon (in French Le Crime de Napoléon) is a controversial book published in 2005 by French historian Claude Ribbe. In the book, Ribbe advances the thesis that it was Napoleon during the Haitian Revolution, not Hitler and the Nazis 140 years later, who first used gas chambers as a method of mass execution.
The Crimea (band) The Crimea are a British indie band, based in Plaistow, East London. The band has been featured in the late John Peel's Festive Fifty, while The Guardian has described The Crimea's songs as "mini-epics" that reduce frontman Davey to "spasms of jerking anguish".
The Criminal The Criminal is a 1960 English film produced by Nat Cohen and starring Stanley Baker as an ex-con who takes part in the robbery of a racetrack and is caught and sent back to prison. The film depicts a harsh and violent portrayal of prison life that led to the film being banned in several countries, including Finland.
The Crimson Petal and the White The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber is an 2002 epic postmodern novel set in Victorian-era England. The main characters include William Rackham, the unwilling heir to a perfume business; Agnes, William's brittle, long-suffering "mad wife in the attic"; and Sugar, a decidedly unconventional and strong-willed young prostitute whose intense affair with William gives her the opportunity to climb to a higher perch in the rigidly stratified class system of the time.
The Crimson Pirate The Crimson Pirate is a 1952 adventure film directed by Robert Siodmak. It stars Burt Lancaster (who also co-produced the film) as Captain Vallo, the eponymous pirate and is set in the caribbean late in the 18th century on the fictional islands of Cobra and San Pero.
The Crimson Rivers The Crimson Rivers (original French title: Les rivières pourpres) is a 2000 French police drama film directed by Mathieu Kassovitz and based on the novel Red Blood Rivers by the film's co-writer Jean-Christophe Grangé. A sequel, Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse (Les rivières pourpres II: Les anges de l'apocalypse), was released in 2004.
The Crimson Tide The Crimson Tide (0-14-034555-8) is a single player roleplaying gamebook written by Paul Mason, illustrated by Terry Oakes and originally published in 1992. It forms part of Jackson and Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy series, numbered 47 in the original Puffin printing and not yet included in the Wizard reissuing.
The Crimson White The Crimson White, known colloquially as "The CW," is the student-run newspaper of the University of Alabama. It is published four times a week -- every weekday except Tuesday -- throughout the fall and spring semesters and weekly during the summer semester.
The Crimson-Leaves Strike The Crimson-Leaves Strike a philosophical method employed by the famed swordsman Miyamoto Musashi, written down within the Gorin no sho during the Edo period (17th century) of Japan. Within this method, you will cause your adversary's sword to drop through a strike from your sword, then bring yourself immediately back to a readiness to strike.
The Crippled Masters The Crippled Masters is a kung fu movie released 1979. Filmed in Hong Kong, it is about two men—one without arms and another with withered legs—who develop kung fu abilities and fight their evil teacher, who made them disabled.
The Crisis and a Crisis in the Life of an Actress The Crisis and a Crisis in the Life of an Actress (Danish: Krisen og en Krise i en Skuespillerindes Liv) was a series of articles written by the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard in 1847 and published in the Danish newspaper Fædrelandet (The Fatherland) in 1848 under the pseudonym Inter et Inter.
The Criterion Collection The Criterion Collection is a privately held company which produces and releases authoritative consumer versions of "important classic and contemporary films" on DVD. It was established in 1984 as a joint venture between Janus Films and the Voyager Company.
The Critics Circle The Critics Circle is a professional association of British critics of drama, music, film and dance, and was established in 1913 as an offshoot of the Society of Dramatic Critics, which had been formed six years earlier but had become inactive.
The Croc Festival The Australian Croc Festival was developed by the Queensland Health Minister, Mike Horan, who in 1997 asked the producers of the Rock Eisteddfod Challenge to find a way to get more indigenous students “engaged” in activities. The inaugural Croc Festival was opened by the Governor-General, Sir William Deane when 350 students from around Cape York and the Torres Strait met in Weipa (Far North Queensland) in July 1998.
The Crocodile Hunter Diaries The Crocodile Hunter Diaries was a wildlife documentary television series first aired on cable TV channel Animal Planet. It was created as a spin-off to the original Crocodile Hunter series hosted by the late Australian naturalist Steve Irwin and his wife Terri Irwin.
The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course is a 2002 Australian comedy-adventure film based on the nature documentary series The Crocodile Hunter, starring Steve Irwin and his wife Terri Irwin. The Irwins play themselves filming an episode of The Crocodile Hunter while trying to protect a crocodile.
The Croft Preparatory School The Croft Preparatory School is an independent, co-educational day school for children from 2 to 11 years. Occupying a large rural site near Stratford-upon-Avon, England with good facilities and playing fields.
The Crooked Codpiece Company The Crooked Codpiece Company is a professional theatre company in Lincoln, NE that specializes in presenting comedies. Founded in 2001 by veteran actors and long-time friends, Tom Crew and Patrick Lambrecht, when asked to put together a fund-raising production for the Lincoln Community Playhouse.
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