* Long Duk Dong or " the Donger ," a character in the 1984 American movie Sixteen Candles

Films such as Class ( film ), The Breakfast Club, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Mannequin ( 1987 film ), Porky's, Pretty In Pink, Sixteen Candles, St. Elmo's Fire ( film ), Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Weird Science and Valley Girl were popular teen comedies of the era and launched the careers of several major celebrities such as: Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Forest Whitaker, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Andrew McCarthy, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Sean Penn and Nicolas Cage.

For example, the school principal in the film Sixteen Candles ( 1984 ) is an interpretation of the Pantalone character, for his goal is to keep the two main characters from being together and to maintain some type of control of his school.

Having appeared in the John Hughes films Sixteen Candles ( 1984 ), The Breakfast Club ( 1985 ), and Pretty in Pink ( 1986 ), Ringwald has been frequently named the greatest teen star of all time.

Turning toward motion pictures, she found her breakout role in Sixteen Candles ( 1984 ).

Among Ringwald's films are The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, The Pick-up Artist and Fresh Horses.

He directed and / or scripted some of the most successful films of the 1980s and 1990s, including National Lampoon's Vacation, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Weird Science, The Breakfast Club, Some Kind of Wonderful, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Beethoven, Uncle Buck, Career Opportunities, 101 Dalmatians, Home Alone, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York and Home Alone 3.

* Sixteen Candles ( 1984 )

Girlfriend From Hell is a 1989 comedy / horror B-movie starring actor Dana Ashbrook of Twin Peaks fame, and Liane Curtis of Sixteen Candles, as well as several B-movies of the 1980s.

She did minor voice-over work for several films, including The Clan of the Cave Bear ( 1986 ), Silverado ( 1985 ), Sixteen Candles ( 1984 ), Back to the Future 2 ( 1989 ) and The Color Purple ( 1985 ).

The band would also use " Wild Sex ( In the Working Class )" for the classic teen comedy Sixteen Candles during a dance scene by Farmer Ted, a. k. a. " The Geek " ( portrayed by Anthony Michael Hall ).

* Sixteen Candles ( 1984 )

It is featured in the John Hughes films Weird Science ( 1985 ) and Sixteen Candles ( 1984 ), and in Amy Heckerling's Clueless ( 1995 ).

Tanen was behind Universal hits such as Animal House, John Hughes's Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club.

* The Crests, late-1950s pop music band whose big hit was " Sixteen Candles "

* For its " coming of age " significance, this age has inspired the titles of many songs, such as " Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen ", " You're Sixteen ", " Sweet Sixteen ", " U16 Girls " " Sweet Little Sixteen " and " Sixteen Candles ".

She appeared with her brother John in the movies Sixteen Candles, Grandview, U. S. A., Class, High Fidelity, Grosse Pointe Blank, Say Anything ..., Cradle Will Rock, Martian Child, and most recently, War, Inc. She also starred in the short-lived ABC sitcom What About Joan?

His films with director-screenwriter John Hughes, beginning with the popular 1984 coming-of-age comedy Sixteen Candles, shaped his early career.

* Sixteen Candles

Hollywood films of the 1980s, such as John Hughes ' Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, and The Breakfast Club, characterized high school preps of the 1980s, who are depicted as a shallow and transparent group primarily concerned with extrinsic things.

* Sixteen Candles

Diddley was an excellent story teller whose stories varied from time to time, however, Diddley contended to friends and family that he was not trying to double-cross Sullivan and attributed the " misunderstanding " to the fact that ; when he saw " Bo Diddley " on a cue card, he was under the impression he was to perform two songs, " Bo Diddley " and " Sixteen Tons ".

Chess included Diddley's recording of " Sixteen Tons " on the album Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger, which was originally released in 1960.

On November 20, 1955, Bo Diddley was asked by Sullivan to sing Tennessee Ernie Ford's hit " Sixteen Tons ".

Loach opposes censorship in cinema and was outraged at the " 18 " certificate given to Sweet Sixteen.

This Trial of the Sixteen ( or the trial of the " Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Center ") was the first Moscow Show Trial and set the stage for subsequent show trials where Old Bolsheviks confessed to increasingly elaborate and monstrous crimes, including espionage, poisoning, sabotage, and so on.

He was the chief defendant in a 1936 show trial, the Trial of the Sixteen that marked the start of the so-called Great Terror in the USSR and resulted in his execution the day after his conviction in August 1936.

This Trial of the Sixteen ( or the trial of the " Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Center ") was the first Moscow Show Trial and set the stage for subsequent show trials where Old Bolsheviks confessed to increasingly elaborate and monstrous crimes, including espionage, poisoning, sabotage, and so on.

Wu Hu () was a Chinese term for the northern non-Chinese nomadic tribes which caused the Wu Hu uprising, and established the Sixteen Kingdoms from 304 to 439 AD.

The first of the Sixteen Kingdoms was founded by a group of Di refugees who fled into Sichuan.

Meanwhile, North China was ruled by the Sixteen Kingdoms, many of which were founded by the Wu Hu.

Later on during the Western Jin Dynasty, it was a Xiongnu noble from Hetao, Liu Yuan, who established the Han Zhao kingdom in the region, thereby beginning the Sixteen Kingdoms period that saw the disintegration of northern China under a variety of Han and non-Han ( including Xiongnu and Xianbei ) regimes.

The Song Dynasty used military force in an attempt to quell the Liao Dynasty and recapture the Sixteen Prefectures, a territory under Khitan control that was traditionally considered to be part of China proper.

Sixteen Spanish ships were intercepted ; one galleon was taken after a surprise encounter during the night, nine smaller merchants were talked into a surrender ; two small ships were taken at sea fleeing, four fleeing galleons were trapped on the Cuban coast in the Bay of Matanzas.

However, the use of adult male falsettos in polyphony, commonly in the alto range, was common in all-male sacred choirs for some decades previous, as early as the mid-16th century, and modern-day ensembles such as the Tallis Scholars and The Sixteen maintain the use of male altos in period works.

Tongwancheng ( meaning " Unite All Nations ") was the capital of the Xia ( Sixteen Kingdoms ), whose rulers claimed descent from Modu Chanyu.

Sixteen months after Millais ' death, Effie died at Bowerswell on 23 December 1897 and was buried in Kinnoull churchyard, Perth, which is depicted in Millais's painting The Vale of Rest.

For many Millbrae residents, the original Sixteen Mile House was a direct link to Millbrae's early days.

The rule was also followed by non-Han Chinese rulers of Sixteen Kingdoms, Silla, Japan, Kingdom of Nanzhao, Liao Dynasty, Vietnam, Western Xia, Jin Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty and Qing Dynasty.

Sixteen women in the community founded a chapter of the Daughters of Rebekah in 1894, and a lodge of the Knights of Pythias was also established in the village.

Sixteen years later the dam was rebuilt to provide water for a series of splash dams that were used to float white pine logs to the sawmills on the West Branch Susquehanna River at Watsontown.

Their first album, Sixteen Stone ( 1994 ), was a huge commercial success.

Sixteen B-17s were dispersed from Clark to Del Monte No. 1 on the morning of 6 December ( 5 December in the United States ), but neither maintenance facilities nor barracks had been built, and only a single radio was operating when war commenced.