Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ruairi Robinson is an Academy Award-nominated Irish film director and writer. He is known mainly for his science-fiction short films and animations, one of which (Fifty Percent Grey) was nominated for an Academy Award. The Silent City, his most recent short film, concerns a group of soldiers wandering through a perilous post-apocalyptic wasteland; the cast includes actor Cillian Murphy. He signed on to direct a live action adaptation of Akira, but the project was cancelled after Robinson departed. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ruan Lingyu born Ruan Fenggen, was a Chinese silent film actress. One of the most prominent Chinese film stars of the 1930s, her tragic death at the age of 24 led her to become an icon of Chinese cinema. Born in Shanghai in 1910, Ruan made her first film at the age of 16 for the then prominent Mingxing Film Studio. She was brought up by her mother who worked as a house maid to provide for her. Her first big break came in Spring Dream of an Old Capital. A massive hit, it was her first major work after signing for the newly-formed Lianhua Studio. Thereafter Ruan became the company's major film star. Her best works came after 1931, starting with the melodrama Love and Duty (directed by Bu...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ruatha Hold is a hold, or dwelling-place (literally a castle), on the fictional planet of Pern in the series of "The Dragonriders of Pern" by Anne McCaffrey. Ruatha was the third major hold to be established on Pern. Its founders were Peter "Red" Hanrahan, his wife and their children. The name comes from the Irish "Rua" (red) and "atha" (ford), or "Red's ford" although grammatically translated as "Ford Red". The correct Irish would be Ath Rua. Ruatha is one of the principal Holds of Pern, and is famous for its runnerbeasts (descendants of horses) and Dragonriders. Ruatha was the home to Lord Alessan, Lord Leef, Weyrwoman Torene, and Lessa, Weyrwoman of Benden Weyr in the ninth pass. Fax...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rubber News is a recurring news programme in the British satirical puppet show Spitting Image. It would only be a few minutes long and would be screened as one of the sketches in Spitting Image.The programme's first appearance was in series 1 episode 7 (May 13th 1984).Rubber News involved normally two (sometimes a different number) of the "Spitting Image" puppets acting as newsreaders sitting behind a news desk presenting some news headlines, made up by the writers of Spitting Image. Sometimes the puppets would argue or get into a fight. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rubbernecker is a reality television show that is hosted by Richard Alexander, currently broadcasting on Nuts TV, the Freeview/cable/satellite channel in the UK, operated by Turner Broadcasting. It features a variety of genres of reality clips, such as extreme sports accidents, world record attempts, bizarre TV commercials, CCTV footage featuring employees caught on camera in the office, user generated content, and news-style reports of unusual events and people from around the world. With a somewhat left field and playful approach to its subjects or featured articles, it has two distinct versions : pre-Watershed (television) and an Uncut version for post-Watershed (television). Данное...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rubberduck (real name Byrd Rentals) is a fictional character in the DC Comics universe, an anthropomorphic duck. Rubberduck is a superhero who lived on the otherdimensional world of Earth-C (now Earth-26), an alternate Earth populated by sentient animals. His first appearance was in The New Teen Titans #16 (February 1982). Rubberduck's alter-ego's name, "Byrd Rentals," is a play on actor Burt Reynolds; being Burt Reynolds' Earth-C/26 counterpart, Byrd Rentals' career roughly matched that of Burt Reynolds, starring in films such as The Longest Yarn (a play on The Longest Yard) and Smoke-Eye and the Panda (a play on Smokey and the Bandit). Данное издание не является...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rubbish King of the Jumble was a children's animated television series on CITV created by Mark Taylor and featured the voice of Alexei Sayle. It was also produced by A Productions for HTV. In this name being a play of King of the Jungle, the series focused on an overfed cat named Rubbish who lives in the junk-filled attic of an old house. He tries and gets a quest to take food by using different disguises and schemes by they backfired by many of his enemies like the birds, the mice and a ferocious guard dog named Dinsdale who does nothing but chasing Rubbish and biting him on the tail. The episodes were written by American writers Pamela Hickey and Dennys McCoy who also wrote episodes for other...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Reuben Lucius Goldberg (July 4, 1883 – December 7, 1970) was an American cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor. Goldberg is best known for a series of popular cartoons he created depicting complex devices that perform simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways – now known as Rube Goldberg machines. Goldberg received many honors in his lifetime including a Pulitzer Prize for his political cartooning in 1948 and the Banshees' Silver Lady Award 1959. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ruben Blades Bellido de Luna (born July 16, 1948) is a Panamanian salsa singer, songwriter, lawyer, actor, Latin jazz musician, and politician, performing musically most often in the Afro-Cuban and Latin jazz genres. As songwriter, Blades brought the lyrical sophistication of Central American nueva cancion and Cuban nueva trova as well as experimental tempos and political inspired Nuyorican salsa to his music, creating thinking persons' (salsa) dance music. Blades has composed dozens of musical hits, the most famous of which is "Pedro Navaja," a song about a neighborhood thug who appears to die during a robbery (his song "Sorpresas" continues the story), inspired by "Mack the Knife." He also...
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rudolf Rittner (June 30, 1869 – February 4, 1943) was a German actor born in Weissbach, Sudetenland, famous for playing knight and folk hero Florian Geyer in Gerhart Hauptmann's drama of the same name. The well-known German painter Lovis Corinth portrayed him in 1906. Only one year later, at the age of 38, Rittner being at the peak of his career retired as theatrical actor. In 1922, he returned as actor in several German movies, especially in Fritz Lang's 1924 silent masterpiece Die Nibelungen with Rittner starring as Markgraf Rudiger von Bechlarn. When he died in 1943, Rittner left two dramas, one of them being Narrenglanz (A Fool's Glory), an allegory on modern acting. Rudolf Rittner died...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nureyev was born on a Trans-Siberian train near Irkutsk, Siberia, Soviet Union, while his mother Farida was travelling to Vladivostok, where his father Hamat, a Red Army political commissar, was stationed. He was raised as the only son in a Tatar family in a village near Ufa in Soviet republic of Bashkiria. When his mother smuggled him and his sisters into a performance of the ballet "Song of the Cranes", he fell in love with dance. As a child he was encouraged to dance in Bashkir folk performances and his precocity was soon noticed by teachers who encouraged him to train in Leningrad. On a tour stop in Moscow with a local ballet company, Nureyev auditioned for the Bolshoi ballet company and...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rudolph Friederich Kurz (1818-1871) was a Swiss painter and writer who ventured to USA in order to paint and study the native Americans. He is mostly known on account of his journals, in which he presents an account of and an interesting commentary on life in the mid-1800s along the Mississippi and Missouri. Born in 1818 in Langnau im Emmental to Johannes Kurz (who moved to Langnau from Reutlingen, Germany in 1806) and Maria Stooss. He attended drawing classes at the Bern gymnasium under Joseph Volmar. In 1838 he travelled to Paris to further his studies; thereupon he met Alexander von Humboldt and Karl Bodmer. Upon returning to Bern (1842) he became head of painting class at the Fellenberg...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rudolf Schwarzkogler (13 November 1940 in Vienna – 20 June 1969) was an Austrian performance artist closely associated with the Viennese Actionism group that included artists Gunter Brus, Otto Muhl, and Hermann Nitsch. He is best known today for photographs depicting his series of closely controlled "Aktionen" featuring such iconography as a dead fish, a dead chicken, bare light bulbs, colored liquids, bound objects, and a man wrapped in gauze. The enduring themes of Scwarzkogler's works involved experience of pain and mutilation, often in an incongruous clinical context, such as 3rd Aktion (1965) in which a patient's head swathed in bandages is being pierced by what appears to be a...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rudolf Wilke (1873—1908) was a German caricaturist and illustrator known for his work for the journal Simplicissimus, to which he was invited to contribute by Albert Langen. Before working for Simplicissimus, he had studied fine art at Munich and Paris and had set up a studio with Bruno Paul. He had also contributed regularly to Die Jugend before he was recruited by Langen. In 1904 Wilke traveled to Marseilles, Algiers, Tunis, Naples and Rome in company with fellow artists Eduard Thony and Ludwig Thoma. In 1906 Wilke, along with Olaf Gulbransson, Thoma, and Thony, persuaded Langen to convert Simplicissimus into a joint stock company, thereby giving more power to the staff to control the...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rudolf Firkusny (pronounced [?rudolf ?f?rku?ni?]; 11 February 1912 – 19 July 1994) was a Czech-born, American classical pianist. Born in Moravian Napajedla, Firkusny started his musical studies with the composers Leos Jana?ek and Josef Suk, and the pianist Vilem Kurz. Later he studied with Alfred Cortot and Artur Schnabel. He began performing on the continent of Europe in the 1920s, and made his debuts in London in 1933 and New York in 1938. He escaped the Nazis in 1939, fled to Paris, later settled in New York and became a U.S. citizen. Firkusny had a broad repertoire and performed with skill the works of Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin and Brahms as...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rudolf Serkin was a Bohemian-born pianist. He was born in Eger, Bohemia, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Cheb, Czech Republic) to a Russian-Jewish family. Hailed as a child prodigy, Serkin was sent to Vienna at the age of 9, where he studied piano with Richard Robert and, later, composition with Joseph Marx making his public debut with the Vienna Philharmonic at 12. From 1918 to 1920 he studied composition with Arnold Schoenberg and participated actively in Schoenberg's Society for the Private Performance of Music. He began a regular concert career in 1920, living in Berlin with the German violinist Adolf Busch and his family, which included a then 3-year-old daughter Irene, whom Serkin would...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Rudolph Valentino (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926) was an Italian actor, and early pop icon. Known as the "Latin Lover", he was one of the most popular international stars of the 1920s, and one of the most recognized stars of the silent film era. He is best known for his work in The Sheik and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. His death at age 31 caused mass hysteria among his female fans, propelling him into icon status. Valentino was born Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Piero Filiberto Guglielmi in Castellaneta, Puglia, Kingdom of Italy, to a French mother, Marie Berthe Gabrielle Barbin (1856–1919), and...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Roudolf Khametovitch Noureev ; en tatar : Rudolf Xamat ul Nuriev) est un danseur etoile ne le 17 mars 1938 en Union sovietique pendant un voyage en train un peu avant Irkoutsk vers Vladivostok. Apres avoir ete danseur soliste au Kirov, il se fait naturaliser autrichien. Il etait dote d'une technique exemplaire.Il est considere comme l'un des plus grands danseurs classiques de son epoque. Il fut l'un des meilleurs interpretes du repertoire classique, mais il affirma aussi son talent dans la danse contemporaine. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rudolf Kortokraks (8 July 1928) is a German painter from Ludwigshafen, Rhein. His paintings depict still life (particularly flowers), landscapes, cities and portraits. Kortokraks attended an art school in Graz in 1941, and moved to the Worpswede artist colony in 1949, where he first took part in exhibitions. He had his first one-man exhibition in 1951. In 1954, Kortokraks joined the School of Vision, part of the international Summer Academy in Salzburg, as a teaching assistant to Oskar Kokoschka. He became the school's chief assistant until the school's collapse in 1963. Kortokraks had several exhibitions in Mexico and New York in 1969. In 1976, he returned to the newly reformed School of...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rudolph "Rudy" Larriva (February 12, 1916 – February 19, 2010) was an American animator and director from the 1940s to the 1980s. Born in El Paso, Texas, Larriva worked at a number of animation studios, including Format Films, Filmation, Walt Disney Productions, but is best known for his work at Warner Bros. Cartoons and UPA. Some of the productions he has worked on include Looney Tunes Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rudy Franchi (born in New York City, April 21, 1939) is a writer and editor on film theory and film criticism and an antiques and collectibles expert. He helped to introduce the French critical protocol the "auteur theory" to the US. For several decades, Franchi also operated galleries that specialized in pop culture collectibles. In 1995, he began appearing as an appraiser on the PBS series, Antiques Roadshow, specializing in pop culture memorabilia. Franchi's early education was at St. John's Grammar School, St. Ann's Academy, and Fordham College. He left Fordham at the end of his junior year to work with Dan Talbot at the New Yorker Theater running a weekly film society. He then started the...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rudy Robles was a Filipino actor and one of the first Filipino actors to appear in Hollywood movies. His credits include pre- and post-World War II films, as Lt. Yabo in The Real Glory (starring Gary Cooper and David Niven) and he played a Filipino Assassin in the 1942 film Across the Pacific. One of his last appearances was playing a T.V. character called Horace in an Alfred Hitchcock Presents T.V. episode. Among his uncredited roles were in the films Singapore ( starring Ava Gardner and Fred McMurray),Adventures of Martin Eden (Glenn Ford), and Okinawa (Pat O'Brien and Richard Denning). Robles started his schooling in the Philippines. Then emigrated to the United States, finishing high school...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rudy Park is a syndicated comic strip created by Darrin Bell and Theron Heir that is distributed by United Media. The strip started in early 2001, when its principal character was laid off from his job at a dot-com company but eventually found a new job as a barista in a coffee shop/internet cafe, the House of Java Cybercafe. Because of its early allusion to the dot-com bust, the strip occasionally takes on current events but in a more lightweight manner compared to Bell's other creation, Candorville. The strip usually focuses on Rudy and his nemesis Sadie Cohen, a frequent customer and octogenarian who disdains Rudy's love for new technology. Other characters include: Armstrong Maynard, Rudy's...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was a British author and poet. Born in Bombay, in British India, he is best known for his works of fiction The Jungle Book (1894) (a collection of stories which includes Rikki-Tikki-Tavi), Kim (1901) (a tale of adventure), many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King (1888); and his poems, including Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), and If— (1910). He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short story"; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature; and his best works speak to a versatile and luminous narrative gift. Данное издание не является...
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