One of Nikita Khrushchev's most enthusiastic eulogizers, the U.S.S.R.'s daily Izvestia, enterprisingly interviewed Red-prone Comedian Charlie Chaplin at his Swiss villa, where he has been in self-exile since 1952.

`` Behind that Charlie Chaplin moustache and that truant lock of hair that always covered his forehead, behind the tirades and the sulky silences, the passionate orations and the occasional dull evasive stare, behind the prejudices, the cynicism, the total amorality of behavior, behind even the tendency to great strategic mistakes, there lay a statesman of no mean qualities: Shrewd, calculating, in many ways realistic, endowed -- like Stalin -- with considerable powers of dissimulation, capable of playing his cards very close to his chest when he so desired, yet bold and resolute in his decisions, and possessing one gift Stalin did not possess: The ability to rouse men to fever pitch of personal devotion and enthusiasm by the power of the spoken word ''.

* 1889 – Charlie Chaplin, English actor, director, and composer ( d. 1977 )

* 1972 – Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.

* 1918 – World War I: Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war bonds on the streets of New York City's financial district.

" John Updike, comparing Abner to a “ hillbilly Candide ,” added that the strip ’ s “ richness of social and philosophical commentary approached the Voltairean .” Charlie Chaplin, William F. Buckley, Al Hirschfeld, Harpo Marx, Russ Meyer, John Kenneth Galbraith, Ralph Bakshi, Shel Silverstein, Hugh Downs, Gene Shalit, Frank Cho, Daniel Clowes and ( reportedly ) even Queen Elizabeth have confessed to being fans of Li ' l Abner.

# REDIRECT Charlie Chaplin

Sir Charles Spencer " Charlie " Chaplin, KBE ( 16 April 188925 December 1977 ) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era.

The name of Charlie Chaplin was said to be " a part of the common language of almost every country ", and according to Harper's Weekly his " little, baggy-trousered figure " was " universally familiar ".

The star's primary concern in finding a new distributor was independence ; Sydney Chaplin, then his business manager, told the press: " Charlie be allowed all the time he needs and all the money for producing the way he wants ...

One journalist wrote: " Nobody in the world but Charlie Chaplin could have done it.

The photographer considered the impromptu self-introduction a prank and angrily answered his caller with the riposte, " If you're Charlie Chaplin, I'm Franklin Roosevelt!

A 1922 image of Charlie Chaplin Studios, where all of Chaplin's films between 1918 and 1952 were produced

* The third of composer Karl Amadeus Hartmann's 1929 – 30 composition Wachsfigurenkabinett: Fünf kleine Opern ( Waxworks: Five Little Operas ) is entitled ' Chaplin-Ford-Trot ', and features the character of Charlie Chaplin ( in a speaking rather than operatic role ).

In London, a statue of him as the Tramp was unveiled in Leicester Square in 1981 and a permanent exhibition on his life and career, Charlie Chaplin – The Great Londoner, opened at the London Film Museum in 2010.

Chaplin's photographic archives are held by the Musée de l ' Élysée in Lausanne, and some of the images in the collection were presented in an exhibition, Charlie Chaplin – Images d ' Un Mythe, in 2011 – 2012.

Since 2011 the town has also been host to the annual Charlie Chaplin Comedy Film Festival, which was founded to celebrate Chaplin's legacy and to showcase new comic talent.

Chaplin has also been the subject of a musical, Limelight – The Story of Charlie Chaplin by Christopher Curtis and Thomas Meehan, which was performed at the La Jolla Playhouse in 2010.

* The Charlie Chaplin Archive Online catalogue of Chaplin's professional and personal archives at the Cineteca di Bologna, Italy

* Charlie Chaplin Comedy Film Festival in Waterville, Ireland

* Charlie Chaplin Museum Website for a future museum at the Manoir de Ban, Switzerland

* Early films by, about or starring Charlie Chaplin at the Internet Archive

* Charlie Chaplin at the British Film Institute.

* The TIME 100: Charlie Chaplin Archived, May 2011.

Pyrokinesis, derived from the Greek words ( pûr, meaning " fire, lightning ") and ( kínesis, meaning " motion "), was the name coined by horror novelist Stephen King for the ability to create or to control fire with the mind that he gave to the protagonist Charlie McGee in Firestarter.

Her African name " Tulivu " translates from Swahili loosely to " beautiful ," and her English name, " Donna Lynn " is derived from " Donna Lee ," the jazz piece made popular by Charlie Parker.

The new name was derived from a monthly comics magazine called Charlie Mensuel ( Charlie Monthly ), which had been started by Bernier and de Ton in 1968.

This was also the period where Jones created many of his lesser-known characters, including Charlie Dog, Hubie and Bertie, and The Three Bears.

Jones-created characters from this period includes Claude Cat, Marc Antony and Pussyfoot, Charlie Dog, Michigan J. Frog, and his three most popular creations, Marvin the Martian, Pepe LePew, the Road Runner, and Wile E. Coyote.

Omaha was divided into ten sectors, codenamed ( from west to east ): Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog Green, Dog White, Dog Red, Easy Green, Easy Red, Fox Green and Fox Red.

The first battalion would be made up of Able, Baker, Charlie, and Dog Companies, while the second would have Easy, Fox, George, and How Companies.

The 327th was assigned the First Battalion of the 401st Glider Infantry Regiment, getting " doubles " on Able, Baker, Charlie, and Dog Companies.

* Charlie the Bubble-Eating Dog ( who never actually ate bubbles )

( The Colonel reappears in " Dog Gone South ", this time pitted against Charlie Dog, and accompanied by a bulldog named Belvedere, who resembles Hector the Bulldog ).

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* Charlie Dog, Chuck Jones ' late 1940s cartoon character

It was first recorded by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band on their album Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy.

With William McEuen as producer and a renegotiated contract that gave the band more artistic freedom, the band recorded and released Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy, issued in 1970.

Task Force Black consisted of Charlie Company supported by two platoons of Dog Company and Task Force Blue which was composed of Alpha Company and the remaining platoon of Dog.

It also has three other characters-Kerry the Koala, Charlie the Dog and Pong the Panda.

Peppermint Patty mentions her mother over the course of the television special He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown, but Schulz repeatedly stated that the situations presented in the cartoon adaptations are not canonical to the strip.

In the 2009 documentary, " Sibling Rivalry: Growing Up Van Pelt ," included on the " I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown " DVD, Schulz's widow, Jean Schulz, speculated that Rerun's expanded presence in the comic strip may have resulted from the presence of grandchildren in Schulz's life.

Rerun briefly appeared in Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales, and the 2003 animated television special I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown.

In the summer of 2009, The Economist magazine said " he debate over health care ... may be the pinnacle of the group ’ s power so far " and quoted Charlie Stenholm, a founding Blue Dog, as saying that " this is the first year for the new kennel in which their votes are really going to make a difference.

* Charlie Melancon ( LA-3 ), Blue Dog Co-Chair for Communications ( ran for Senate in 2010, lost )

The other original NSS installations similar to Manzano were: Site Baker at Killeen Base, adjacent to Gray Air Force Base and Fort Hood, Texas ; Site Charlie at Campbell Air Force Base and adjacent to Fort Campbell ( Tennessee and Kentucky ); Site Dog at Bossier Base, adjacent to Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana ; Lake Mead Base, adjacent to Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, and Medina Base, adjacent to Lackland Air Force Base, Texas.

Footrot Flats characters include Wal, Dog, Cooch, Cheeky Hobson, Aunt Dolly, Horse, Pongo, Rangi, Charlie, Major, Jess and the Murphy family of Irish and Hunk and Spit.