Quite removed from Armstrong ’ s usual subject matter, Death Defying Acts portrays a moment in the life of 1920 ’ s escape artist Harry Houdini in the style of a supernatural, romantic thriller.

Defying conventional wisdom among radio personalities, Cox had been quite successful despite divulging very little about his personal life.

Defying their boss, Angelo and Johnny go to the airport where Bodhi, Roach, and Nathaniel are about to leave for Mexico ( where Rosie awaits them with Tyler ).

Defying Lincoln's prediction that " the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here ," the Address became the most quoted speech in American history.

Defying political pundits, who had predicted it to be trounced in the April 2008 elections, the Communist Party of Nepal ( Maoist ) became the largest party amidst a general atmosphere of fear and intimidation from all sides.

Keith Urban recorded Foster's song " I'm In " for his 2009 album Defying Gravity and it became a No. 2 single.

* Defying Ocean's End, a 2004 global agenda for action in marine conservation

Defying the tiger Shere Khan, who is determined to eat the man-cub, she reveals that her name is Raksha ( which means " protection ") because of her ferocity as a fighter, and she will fight to the death for any of her cubs, natural or adopted.

He also earned a nomination for Album Of The Year for Defying Gravity and shares a nomination with Brad Paisley for Music Video Of The Year for " Start A Band ".

Defying expectations of the Jamaican authorities, Selassie never rebuked the Rastafari for their belief in him as the Messiah.

Defying a doctor's order not to work for two weeks due to high blood pressure, Laffoon presided for three days as a special judge in the Union County Circuit Court in February 1941.

Defying audience expectations, as he often did, Peckinpah immediately followed The Wild Bunch with the elegiac, funny and mostly non-violent 1970 Western The Ballad of Cable Hogue.

Defying a computer analysis that said it could not be done, the fair opened on time.

* On the ABC series Defying Gravity, the mission to Mars took place in this year, ten years before the Antares Mission in 2052.

Defying this edict, Antigone attempted to bury her brother.

She also starred in the 2008 biopic romantic thriller Death Defying Acts.

In 2008, starred alongside Guy Pearce and Saoirse Ronan in Death Defying Acts, a biopic about legendary escapologist Harry Houdini at the height of his career in the 1920s.

Pearce portrayed pop artist Andy Warhol in Factory Girl and Harry Houdini in Death Defying Acts.

Maintained by Paul Schatzkin, author of " Defying Gravity: The Parallel Universe of T. Townsend Brown.

Defying gravity, they move through the air, flying thirty feet upward to the ceiling, which they kiss.

The track, " Death Defying Headlines ", was released as a digital single as both a single edit and an extended dance remix.

Defying Ottoman rule, the klephts were highly admired and held a significant place in popular lore.

It features two of the newly recorded tracks from the ' Death Defying Headlines E. P.

She was the subject of a documentary titled The Eyes of Tammy Faye ( 1999 ) and a followup film titled Tammy Faye: Death Defying ( 2004 ) from Lions Gate Entertainment.

Defying this, Crump and Gracey connected all the effects to a motion-sensitive switch that, when passed, would turn everything on.

She also played Christa McAuliffe in the play Defying Gravity.

* On the new ABC series Defying Gravity, the Antares 6-year space mission begins in this year.

The channel presents: The Simpsons, Strike Force, Criminal Minds, CSI: NY Triple Play, CSI: Miami Triple Play, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Triple Play, Nip / Tuck, Bull Run, Life On Mars, The Cleveland Show, The Amazing Race, Legend Of The Seeker, The Wanda Sykes Show, Defying Gravity, TNA Impact Wrestling, Louie, The Walking Dead, with some movies every night and additional series.

She starred as astronaut-biologist Jen Crane in ABC's 2009 summer show Defying Gravity.

The Sherbs's second album, Defying Gravity, followed in 1981, but failed to produce a single that charted in the either the US or Australian top 100.

The track's mild AOR success was not enough to ignite album sales in the US, though, and Defying Gravity only reached No. 202 on the album charts.

`` Just because your father tried to make a banker out of you, you've leaned over backward to keep your hands off.

Yoko Ono was born in Tokyo in 1933 to mother Isoko Ono, the great-granddaughter of Zenjiro Yasuda of the Yasuda banking family, and to father Yeisuke Ono, a banker and one-time classical pianist who was a descendant of an Emperor of Japan.

Some sources, including The Saint Petersburg Gazette, have claimed that her illegitimate father was the Jewish – Russian banker Lazar Polyakov.

His father, Jules Dukas, was a banker, and his mother, Eugénie, was a capable pianist.

* Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy ( 1776 – 1835 ), German Jewish banker, son of Moses, father of Fanny and Felix

Her father was Ellis Arthur Franklin ( 1894 – 1964 ), a London merchant banker, and her mother was Muriel Frances Waley ( 1894 – 1976 ).

His father did not wish him to become a composer, but rather a banker ; however, the son defied his father's wishes, and went on to study music with the composer Joseph Drechsler and the violin with Anton Kollmann, the ballet répétiteur of the Vienna Court Opera.

His father did not want him to become a musician but rather a banker.

His father married in 1860 the deeply religious Quaker spinster Eliza Brightwen ( 1813 – 1900 ), whose brother Thomas tried to encourage Edmund to become a banker.

Hart-Davis believed the most likely candidate for his natural father to be a Yorkshire banker called Gervase Beckett.

A general ( but unconfirmed ) belief exists that he spent his early youth at a Jesuit college, working for a Parisian banker ; as well as working for the father of Jean Chapelain.

Her father was also a banker and real estate developer and the youngest man ever elected to the Montana state legislature.

His father was Thomas Mellon, a banker and judge who was a Scotch-Irish immigrant from County Tyrone, Northern Ireland ; his mother was Sarah Jane Negley Mellon.

* Sir Leicester Kroesig, Tony's father, also a banker, who strongly dislikes Linda

In 1929, Harry sent a drunken cable home to his father, an investment banker, who was not pleased by it:

One was Thomas Rogers, father of the above-named Samuel Rogers, a merchant turned banker who had married into a long-established Dissenting family and lived at No. 56 the Green.

Her father was the prominent Swiss banker and statesman Jacques Necker, who was the Director of Finance under King Louis XVI of France.

His father, Thomas Rogers, a banker, was the son of a Stourbridge glass manufacturer, who was also a merchant in Cheapside.

Her father was a well-to-do banker.

Her father, Edwin Myrwyn Rowlands, was a banker and a state legislator.

His father, Andrews Norton ( 1786 – 1853 ) was a Unitarian theologian, and Dexter professor of sacred literature at Harvard ; his mother was Catherine Eliot, a daughter of banker Samuel Eliot.

Nothing is known about his early life except that his father Hicesias was a banker.

** Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy, banker and father of Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn ( born 1776 )

His father, a scholarly man, was a banker and a member of the Berlin Stock Exchange.

* Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. ( 1831 – 1878 ), banker and father of the U. S. President.