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Val Kilmer (born December 31, 1959) is an American actor. Contents 1 Attributed 1.1 On playing Batman 1.2 On acting 1.3 On other actors 1.4 On turning down Blue Velvet 1.5 On violence 1.6 On show business 1.7 On his early career 1.8 On his...
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SOURCE: Classics of the Horror Film, The Citadel Press, 1974, pp. 179-87. Everson was an eminent film historian, collector, and educator. In addition to the work excerpted here, his other scrupulously researched and enthusiastically written...
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Val Logsdon Fitch was born to Fred B. and Frances M. (Logsdon) Fitch on March 10, 1923, on a cattle ranch near Merriman, Nebraska, a short distance from the South Dakota border. After an injury to the elder Fitch on the ranch, the family m...
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Waldemar IV (ca. 1320-1375) reunited the kingdom of Denmark under his rule, presenting a strong, nationalistic challenge to the mercantile Hanseatic League. Waldemar IV was born to a bankrupt crown. In 1320, the year he was born, his fathe...
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Valdemar Poulsen was a Danish engineer who invented the magnetic recorder in 1898. His ideas were the basis of magnetic recording and led to crucial developments in communications and computer technology. Born in Copenhagen on November 23,...
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Gina Valdés's prose and poetry, characterized by a tension between her social concerns and a strong metaphysical current, place her at an important crossroads within Chicano letters. She is fusing trends that have been central to Ch...
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Luis Valdez (born 1940) was founder of the El Teatro Campesino in California and is thought to be the father of Mexican American theater. Playwright and director Luis Valdez is considered the father of Mexican American theater. In 1965 he ...
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Luis Valdez is considered the father of Chicano theater. He has distinguished himself as an actor, director, playwright, and, most recently, a filmmaker. It was, however, his role as the founding director of El Teatro Campesino, a theater ...
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The form of Patrizia Valduga's poetry--its most striking component--attracts the attention of critics and readers. Her rich, ponderous, minutely examined language has been full of philological refinements and neologisms since the publicati...
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This is the true story, of 300 students, learning in the same school.  We found out what happens when they stop being nice, and start getting real.  We watch them teach and learn from each other.  And then it is all over in a...
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Valence refers to a number assigned to elements that reflects their ability to react with other elements and the type of reactions the element will undergo. The term valence is derived from the Latin word for strength and can reflect an el...
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José Angel Valente is in a group of Spanish poets who came to the fore in the late 1950s and 1960s, which also includes such writers as Claudio Rodríguez, Carlos Sahagún, Francisco Brines, Eladio Cabañero, and A...
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1745-1822 French abbot and inventor who is credited with the conception (1771) of an embossed letter system to educate persons with blindness. In 1783-84 Abbot Haüy founded the Institute for the Blind and began training his blind stud...
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Valentin Kataev, a highly prominent Soviet writer, wrote fiction, plays, autobiographical essays, and poetry. He was founding editor of the journal Iunost' (Youth) in 1955 and served as its editor in chief until 1962. Kataev enjoyed a succ...
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Valentin Grigor'evich Rasputin made his name as one of the foremost writers of "village prose" with four novellas written in the late 1960s to the mid 1970s achieving particular prominence with "Proshchanies Materoi" (translated as Farewel...
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Valentina Tereshkova (born 1937) was the first woman in space, orbiting the earth 48 times in Vostok VI in 1963. Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space. Tereshkova took off from the Tyuratam Space Station in the Vostok VI in 196...
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Valentine is a horror movie with David Boreanaz about a highschool outsider who kills his tormentors. Tagline: Love Hurts. External links IMDB Wikipedia has an article about: Valentine (movie)...
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Valentine Blacker born in Armagh , Northern Ireland , 1778 - died in Calcutta , India , 4 February , 1826 ), was a lieutenant colonel in the Honourable East India Company and later Surveyor General of India . Sourced Put your trust in God,...
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1629-1683 Irish man who, with what would today be called faith healing, cured many people suffering from psychosomatic illness—illness that originates or is made worse by the patients' belief that they are ill. His ability to...
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1785-1865 American physician who pioneered vascular surgery. Mott earned a medical degree from New York's Columbia College, studied surgical techniques abroad in London and Edinburgh, then returned to the United States to teach at C...
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Valentine's Day (Also known as St. Valentine's Day) Symbols: hearts, cupid, flowers, chocolate, and doves/ U.S. holiday colors: red & pink Valentine's Day is a Christian Festival commemorating the martyrdom of St. Valentine on February ...
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Early-twentieth-century biographers of Diego de Valera such as Lucas de Torre y Franco-Romero and José Antonio de Balenchana tend to dismiss Valera as little more than a pedant and a brigand. This portrait has been extensively revis...
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1942- Russian Cosmonaut Dr. Valery Vladimirovich Polyakov—physician, researcher, and cosmonaut—holds the record for human longevity in space. In 1994-95 Polyakov spent 437 days and 17 hours in space, the longest uninterrupted...
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Diego Valeri represents a twentieth-century continuation of the classical lyric tradition in its purest form. Peripheral to contemporary ideological crises, his voice is imbued with the music and Arcadian imagery of Anacreon, Petrarch, Ang...
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The Roman emperor Valerian (ca. 200-ca. 260), or Publius Licinius Valerianus, attempted to stay the advances of the barbarians and the Persians on Roman territory and was a vigorous persecutor of the Christians. The background of Valerian ...
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Valerie Harper was a little-known actress-dancer when she was cast as Rhoda Morgenstern, neighbor and best buddy of Mary Richards, on CBS's landmark 1970s TV sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Harper emerged as one of television hist...
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SOURCE: A review of Set in Motion, in The New York Times, June 23, 1978, p. C23. Broyard is an American critic and essayist. In the following review, he favorably assesses Set in Motion, noting Martin's focus on male-female relationships. H...
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Valerie Elise Plame Wilson (born 1963-04-19 ), known as Valerie Plame, Valerie E. Wilson and Valerie Plame Wilson, is a former United States Central Intelligence Agency Operations Officer (whose covert identity had been classified) and the...
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Valerie Profumo ( 14 April 1917 – 13 November 1998 ) was the wife of the disgraced British Politician and later charity worker John Profumo . She had a career as an actress during the 1930s to 1950s under her maiden name Valerie Hobson ....
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Valerie Solanas (9 April 1936–26 April 1988) was an American feminist. She is notable for writing The SCUM Manifesto and having shot Andy Warhol . Sourced The SCUM Manifesto (1968) Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and n...
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Valerius Cordus. German Botanist 1515-1544 Valerius Cordus was an early sixteenth-century German botanist who advanced the study of pharmacology by studying botany in a newly observant way. Born in 1515 as the son of botanist Euricu...
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The Argonautica (The Argonauts, a.d. 92/93), Valerius Flaccus's only known poem, is one of the last important epics of imperial Rome. It is one of three large-scale epics to have survived from the Flavian era (the other two are Statius's T...
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What is in a name? Valerius Maximus, author of the Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri novem (Memorable Deeds and Sayings, A.D. 31-32), possesses a name that provides no small proportion of what little is known about him. Although the ...
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Ignorance wavers between extreme audacity and extreme shyness....
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1939- Russian astronaut who served as flight director of the Salyut-7 and Mir space stations from 1981-89. Ryumin spent a total of 362 days in space, primarily on two missions to the Salyut-6 space station—175 days in 1977 and 185 d...
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Paolo Valesio, professor of Italian at Yale University, is a widely known scholar in the fields of linguistics, literary criticism, critical theory, and rhetoric. He is also a novelist, poet, and short story writer. A good point of departu...
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During the 1970s William Dempsey Valgardson established himself as one of Canada's foremost writers of short fiction. His forceful presentation of lives shaped by isolation and the brutal effects of a northern environment, his careful cont...
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In the simplest sense, a measure is said to be valid to the degree that it measures what it is hypothesized to measure (Nunnally 1967, p. 75). More precisely, validity has been defined as the degree to which a score derived from a measurem...
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SOURCE: Umland, Samuel J. “To Flee from Dionysus: Enthousiasmos from ‘Upon the Dull Earth’ to VALIS.” In Philip K. Dick: Contemporary Critical Interpretations, edited by Samuel J. Umland, pp. 81-99. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press,...
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VALKYRIES, supernatural female figures of Norse myth and literature, share many features with the dísir, fylgjur, hamingjur, Norns, and landvættir in the extant texts, and there is little terminological consistency. A primary...
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VALLABHA (1479–1531), also called Vallabhācārya, was a Vaiṣṇava Hindu philosopher and religious leader. Vallabha was born in central India at Campāraṇya (Raipur District, Madhya Pradesh) int...
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As is the case with the work of many women writers, Luz Valle's poetry has been mentioned in passing by most Guatemalan literary historians, but her texts remain little studied. Although she was not a prolific poet, the value of her contri...
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Victor Manuel Valle is a poet, translator, editor, activist, and investigative journalist whose creative vision is rooted in the history of the valley of Los Angeles. Although Valle's poetry has motivated the rest of his work, his journali...
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From its first manifestations, Armando Vallejo's poetic voice has shown his love for life and political action. In spite of its technical or formal inexpertness, his early poetry was heard as an embodiment of an authentic new voice and not...
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Manuel Mejía Vallejo is a Colombian writer whose work emanates from the traditions of his native region of Antioquia. Antioquia's rich oral tradition is an integral element in his fiction. Paradoxically, despite this traditionalism,...
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