* 2007: Robbie the Reindeer in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind ( TV ) ( voice ) .... Donner

The route also offers an alternative to the often treacherous Donner Pass to truckers traveling from the San Francisco Bay Area to points eastward ; prior to the construction of Interstate 80, the road ( as U. S. Route 466 ) was heavily used for this purpose.

The best alternative to risking the Donner route was to try an end run to the south of the Sierras.

That night, the townsfolk decided to name the new town Marysville after Charles Covillaud's wife, Mary Murphy Covillaud, one of the surviving members of the Donner Party.

Donora got its name from a combination of William Donner and Nora Mellon, banker Andrew W. Mellon's wife.

* A 1963 episode of The Twilight Zone, " Nightmare at 20, 000 Feet " directed by Richard Donner and based on the short story of the same name by Richard Matheson, featured a gremlin attacking an airliner.

Canada's largest non-profit recognition program, the Donner Canadian Foundation Awards for Excellence in the Delivery of Social Services < ref name = donner >< Donner Canadian Foundation Awards recognize non-profit social service agencies that, despite budget limitations, excel in terms of management and service delivery.

In the 1978 Richard Donner Superman film and Bryan Singer's Superman Returns, Lex briefly mentions his father — though he never reveals his father's name — as the insipiration of Lex's real estate schemes and that his father was a harsh man who kicked Lex out at some point.

Timeline is a 2003 science fiction adventure film directed by Richard Donner, based on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton.

* Luzula subcongesta, common name Donner woodrush

Rudolph's parents, ( his father being Donner ) are shown in the scene where Rudolph explains to Happy about himself, but are not referred by name nor do they have any lines.

Donner is seen as part of Santa's sleigh team towards the end after Happy makes the Aeon laugh and it strikes midnight when Rudolph says " There's got to be a way to get to Father Time's castle before the 12th bong " and Santa and the reindeer team showing up instantly, but again is not referred by name.

the most notable result is that Donner, who according to the original Rudolph storyline would be Robbie's grandfather, is instead Robbie's love interest and eventual wife ( a possible play on the common female name of Donna ).

* 1846 – The Donner Party of pioneers departs Springfield, Illinois, for California, on what will become a year-long journey of hardship, cannibalism, and survival.

In his book The Early Islamic Conquests ( 1981 ), Fred Donner argues that the standard Arabian practice at the time was for the prominent men of a kinship group, or tribe, to gather after a leader's death and elect a leader from amongst themselves.

Tom Mankiewicz described his performance on the commentary track for Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut as always playing Superman, but, when he was Clark, playing Superman who was playing Clark Kent.

More than half of the footage filmed for Superman II by the originally credited director ( Richard Lester ) has been removed from the film and replaced with Donner footage shot during the original principal photography from 1977 – 1978.

In September 1995, Polgár finished third in a tournament in the Donner Memorial in Amsterdam, behind Jan Timman and Julio Granda Zuniga who tied for first.

In the original Richard Donner films, Luthor is a vain, wisecracking money-hungry gangster, with a particular fixation on real estate, who plots outrageous disasters for Superman to try to avert.

Lewis M. Clement, Chief Assistant Engineer and Superintendent of TrackFrom January or February 1861 until July, Judah and Strong led a 10-person expedition to survey the route for the railroad over the Sierra Nevada, through Clipper Gap, Emigrant Gap, Donner Pass, and south to Truckee.

The fort is famous for its association with the Donner Party, the California Gold Rush and the formation of Sacramento.

Occasionally artists make impromptu performances ; for example, in 2010, a troupe of 22 dancers " contort their bodies and cram themselves into the nooks and crannies of the Financial District in Bodies in Urban Spaces " choreographed by Willi Donner.

An example is the NGS data for a brass disk near Donner Summit, in California.

Donner praises them for their energy and excitement, but says that they were a handful when brought together.

The writing's on the wall when they're releasing the DVD in such numbers ," Donner has expressed doubt that the sequel will ever happen, as many of the actors had not shown interest in returning for a sequel.

The poem was read by three actors with jazz music specially composed for this radio broadcast by Henrik Otto Donner.

Actor Jan Michael Vincent ( billed as Michael Vincent ) appeared in the live-action component Danger Island ; all the live-action material filmed for the series ' first season ( including the Banana Splits and Danger Island segments ) was directed by Richard Donner.

After the first Superman film was released in late 1978, the Salkinds went back into production on Superman II without informing Superman director Richard Donner ; they placed Lester behind the camera for the completion of the film.

Although Donner had shot a majority of what was planned for the film, Lester jettisoned or reshot much of the original footage so that he could claim sole credit for directing Superman II.

Gene Hackman, who played Lex Luthor, refused to return for the reshoots, so Lester instead used a stunt double and an impersonator to loop Luthor's lines onto footage of Hackman shot by Donner.

In November 2006, Donner's footage was reedited into Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut, consisting primarily of his footage with Lester's footage used only for scenes not shot during Donner's principal photography.

Coincidentally, assistant director Willie Simmons had an avid interest in unusual forms of martial arts, and he invited several practitioners to the set to demonstrate for Donner.

On 24 January 2003, Queen Beatrix asked Piet Hein Donner ( minister of Justice for the CDA in the previous cabinet ) to lead the coalition negotiations.

The Donner Party was a group of 87 American pioneers who in 1846 set off from Missouri in a wagon train headed west for California, only to find themselves trapped by snow in the Sierra Nevada.

Although a minor incident in the record of westward migration in North America, the Donner Party became notorious for the reported claims of cannibalism.

Director Richard Donner, producer Lauren Shuler Donner, and Jane Rosenthal optioned the rights for the live action film, having expressed interest in the property soon after Turner's acquisition of Hanna-Barbera.

The reverse features the Providentia Fountain (“ Provendentia Brunnen ”) in central Vienna, work of one of the greatest baroque sculptor Georg Rafael Donner.

On one of the featurettes included on the DVD release of the film, director Richard Donner reveals these scenes were ad-libbed by Mel Gibson.

Efforts to memorialize the Donner Party were underway within a few years ; historians have described the episode as one of the most spectacular tragedies in California history and in the record of western migration.

An early example of the teaser trailer was the one for the Superman film by Richard Donner.

Film historian Michael Barson writes that Donner had " emerged as one of Hollywood's most reliable makers of action blockbusters.

For this perceived betrayal, Zod declares that he will escape and conquer Krypton ( confident that Jor-El will actually discover some way to save the planet ) and force the scientist and his son to kneel before him one day ( this echoes the statement Terence Stamp made in both Superman movies Donner directed: " You will bow down before me, Jor-El!

They had one son, William Donner Roosevelt, in 1932.

Also in 1987, Donner received the Henriёtte Roland-Holst Prize, one of the Netherlands ' most prestigious literary awards, for Na mijn dood geschreven (" Written after my death "), a selection from the mini-columns he had written for NRC Handelsblad.

The Donner family is one of the renowned and wealthy Finland-Swedish families that grew in importance during the times of the Grand Duchy of Finland.

Between 1960 and 1963 TIME magazine commissioned Dobell to paint four portraits for covers, one per year, of: Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia ; South Vietnam's President Ngo Dinh Diem ; Frederick G. Donner, the Chairman of General Motors ; and Tunku Abdul Rahman, Prime Minister of Malaysia.

Georg Rafael Donner ( 1693 – 1741 ) was one of the most prolific Austrian sculptors of the 18th century.

* Donner Professor, an academic title held by those who have held one of the chairs funded by the William H. Donner Foundation

His last tournament was Beverwijk ( Hoogovens ) in 1961, where in a field with five more strong grandmasters, he finished with a score of 3 / 9 ( with only one win, against Jan Hein Donner ).

" Trees " was popularised in 1948 by the eponym segment of Melody Time, an animated feature produced by Walt Disney, and also in the 1980 film Superman II, of which there are two versions, one directed by Richard Donner and one directed by Richard Lester.

Elk was originally called " Greenwood " after early homesteaders, the Greenwood brothers, sons of mountain man Caleb Greenwood, one of the rescuers of the Donner Party.

Balthasar Ferdinand Moll ( Innsbruck, Tirol ) 4 January 1717 – Vienna 3 March 1785 ) was one of the most famous sculptors in Vienna during the height of the Baroque era ( after Georg Raphael Donner and Lorenzo Mattielli )