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During the World War II years, Jones worked closely with Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, to create the Private Snafu series of Army educational cartoons.
The popularity of Peyton Place prompted the CBS network to spin off popular As the World Turns character Lisa Miller into her own evening soap opera, Our Private World ( originally titled " The Woman Lisa " in its planning stages ).
Our Private World ran from May until September 1965.
Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American epic war film set during the invasion of Normandy in World War II.
For years now, I've been looking for the right World War II story to shoot, and when Robert Rodat wrote Saving Private Ryan, I found it.
Saving Private Ryan has been critically noted for its realistic portrayal of World War II combat.
Saving Private Ryan was a critical and commercial success and is credited with contributing to a resurgence in America's interest in World War II.
* 1914 – World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
With financial backing from Savva Mamontov ( the director of the Russian Private Opera Company ) and Princess Maria Tenisheva, the group founded the journal Mir iskusstva ( World of Art ).
The success of Steven Spielberg's realistic Saving Private Ryan in 1998 helped to usher in a revival of interest in World War II films.
A Very Double Life: The Private World of Mackenzie King ( 1985 ) excerpt and text search.
* May 24 – Private John Condon, youngest British soldier to die during the First World War ( b. c. 1901 )
In addition to his role in Saving Private Ryan, Hanks was cited for serving as the national spokesperson for the World War II Memorial Campaign, for being the honorary chairperson of the D-Day Museum Capital Campaign, and for his role in writing and helping to produce the Emmy Award-winning miniseries, Band of Brothers.
During World War II, various British and Commonwealth units, including the Long Range Desert Group ( LRDG ), the No. 1 Demolition Squadron or ' PPA ' ( Popski's Private Army ), and the Special Air Service ( SAS ) were noted for their exploits in the deserts of Egypt, Libya and Chad using unarmored motor vehicles, often fitted with machine guns and cannons of various types.
" The most disturbing thing about The Patriot is not just that German director Roland Emmerich ( director of Independence Day ) and his screenwriter Robert Rodat ( who was criticized for excluding British, Canadian ( Juno Beach ) and other Allied soldiers from his script for Saving Private Ryan ) depicted British troops as committing savage atrocities, but that those atrocities bear such a close resemblance to war crimes carried out by German troops — particularly the SS in World War II.
In his 2006 self-published book I Kept My Word: The Personal Promise Between a World War II Army Private and His Captain About What Really Happened to Glenn Miller, Clarence B. Wolfe — a gunner with Battery D, 134th AAA Battalion, in Folkestone, England — claims that his battery shot down Miller's plane.
* The World Bank's Private Sector Development Blog on Corruption
The two sequels were Up the Chastity Belt ( 1971 ) and Up the Front ( 1972 ), which transported Howerd's servile, cowardly character to Medieval times ( as Lurkalot ) and World War I ( as Private Lurk ).
Alongside this, World War II also inspired films as varied as Bridge on the River Kwai, The Longest Day, Catch-22, Saving Private Ryan, and The Sea Shall Not Have Them.
* Private Cecil John Kinross VC ( 1896-1957 ), who distinguished himself at Passchendaele in World War I, was born in Harefield ; he moved with his family in 1912 to Lougheed, Alberta.
Restored and reshaped following the Second World War, the present Gardens are divided into the Warden ’ s Garden, the Fellows ’ Private Garden and the Fellows ’ Garden, together with the Cloister Garden ( originally the cemetery ) and the White Scented Garden.
He tries to locate Arthur Curtis's house, but cannot find any evidence of it, and Raigan's agent tells him that the movie called " The Private World of Arthur Curtis " is being cancelled because the filmmakers believe that Raigan has had a nervous breakdown.
The CD " Private World: The Complete Early Studio Demos 1972 / 3 " includes their versions of songs by Otis Redding, Gary US Bonds, Chuck Berry, The Shangri-Las and Muddy Waters.

Private and War
* The Private War of Major Benson
* The Private War of Major Benson ( 1955 )
* Latveria appears in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes episode " The Private War of Doctor Doom.
Other examples are the Peter Marlow series, beginning with The Private Sector ( 1971 ) by Joseph Hone, which is set during Israel's Six Day War ( 1967 ) against Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, and William Garner's secret agents, the fantastic Michael Jagger, in Overkill ( 1966 ), The Deep, Deep Freeze ( 1968 ), The Us or Them War ( 1969 ) and A Big Enough Wreath ( 1974 ) and the realistic John Morpurgo in Think Big, Think Dirty ( 1983 ), Rats ' Alley ( 1984 ), and Zones of Silence ( 1986 ).
In at least one case ( TOS episode ' A Private Little War '), where two different factions of one race were at war with each other, the Prime Directive had been interpreted to mean that neither side could have an advantage ( i. e. that there had to be a balance of power ).
Admiral Matthew Dougherty's reasons for violation of the Prime Directive in Star Trek: Insurrection in Picard's time echoes the reasons Kirk gives McCoy in " Private Little War " but Picard considers them invalid.
* General W. T. Sherman as College President: A Collection of Letters, Documents, and Other Material, Chiefly from Private Sources, Relating to the Life and Activities of General William Tecumseh Sherman, to the Early Years of Louisiana State University, and the Stirring Conditions Existing in the South on the Eve of the Civil War ( posthumous, 1912 )
** The Private War of Major Benson-Joe Connelly, Bob Mosher
In addition, their hearts are located on the right side of the torso, in between the ribs and pelvis, as Dr. McCoy once says about Spock: “ He is lucky that his heart is where his liver should be, or he ’ d be dead !” ( ST: TOS, A Private Little War )
The title of Crane's original, 55, 000-word manuscript was " Private Fleming / His various battles ", but in order to create the sense of a less traditional Civil War narrative, he ultimately changed the title to The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War.
Slovik also appears in Nick Arvin's 2005 novel Articles of War, in which the fictional protagonist, Private George ( Heck ) Tilson, is one of the members of Slovik's firing squad.

Private and I
Private George Gray Hunter of Pennsylvania wrote: `` I am well convinced in my own mind that had it not been for officers this war would have ended long ago ''.
'' Private Jenkins Lloyd Jones of the Wisconsin Light Artillery wrote in his diary: `` I strolled among the Alabamans on the right, found some of the greenest specimens of humanity I think in the universe, their ignorance being little less than the slave they despise with as imperfect a dialect.
* Rouche, Michel, " Private life conquers state and society ," in A History of Private Life vol I, Paul Veyne, editor, Harvard University Press 1987 ISBN 0-674-39974-9
* 1913, Gelmeroda I, ( Private collection, New York )
Saving Private Ryan made me aware of some issues raised by the cinema of war that I was unable to ask on my own.
* James I of England condemns duels in his proclamation Against Private Challenges and Combats.
* In the 1991 film King Ralph, King Ralph I ( John Goodman ), while being schooled in English history and culture by his Private Secretary Sir Cedric Willingham ( Peter O ' Toole ), is shown a variety of traditional English dishes, including bangers and mash.
" Though p ' r ' aps I may incur thy blame " ( Phyllis, Lord Mountararat, Lord Tolloller, and Private Willis )
* Watkins, Susan ( 1998 ): The Public and Private Worlds of Elizabeth I Thames & Hudson ISBN 0-500-01869-3
But then I had voted for him, so he owed me something .” Rushton also appeared on the original flexi-discs of skits, squibs and invective that “ Private Eye ” gave away, having success with two self-penned songs: “ Neasden ” (“ you won ’ t be sorry that you breezed in.
He is heard on all five records in, respectively, The Private Life of Henry VIII, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Mutiny on the Bounty, I, Claudius ( curiously, since this film was unfinished and thus never released ), and Vessel of Wrath.
Private John G. Burnett later wrote, " Future generations will read and condemn the act and I do hope posterity will remember that private soldiers like myself, and like the four Cherokees who were forced by General Scott to shoot an Indian Chief and his children, had to execute the orders of our superiors.
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Chamberlain himself was less concerned, assuring Balfour's Private Secretary in February 1902 that ' I have my own work to do and ... I shall be quite willing to serve under Balfour.
Other series writers included Private Eye editor and Have I Got News For You stalwart Ian Hislop, Press Gang creator and Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat, award-winning children's author Anthony Horowitz, Nick Newman and John O ' Farrell.
* Kieran Scott ( born 1974 ), author of " Private ( novel series )" and " I Was a Non-Blonde Cheerleader "

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