* 1944 – World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 prisoners begin breaking out of Stalag Luft III.

In the 2002 Sight & Sound directors ' poll, Tarantino revealed his top 12 films: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ; Rio Bravo ; Taxi Driver ; His Girl Friday ; Rolling Thunder ; They All Laughed ; The Great Escape ; Carrie ; Coffy ; Dazed and Confused ; Five Fingers of Death ; and Hi Diddle Diddle.

Hollywood also made its own contribution to the genre with The Great Escape ( 1963 ) and the fictional Stalag 17 ( 1953 ).

It has been suggested on BBC Radio 4's ' PM ' that the theme should become the England football supporters ' song, instead of the Great Escape.

** The " Great Escape " – 76 Royal Air Force prisoners escape by tunnel " Harry " from Stalag Luft III this night.

" The original model of this original vision of EPCOT can still be seen by passengers riding the Tomorrowland Transit Authority attraction in the Magic Kingdom park ; when the PeopleMover enters the showhouse for Stitch's Great Escape !, the model is visible on the left ( when facing forward ) behind glass.

Following a stylistic change influenced by English guitar pop groups such as The Kinks, The Beatles and XTC, Blur released Modern Life Is Rubbish ( 1993 ), Parklife ( 1994 ) and The Great Escape ( 1995 ).

Blur began working on their fourth album The Great Escape at the start of 1995.

* The Great Escape ( 1995 )

Swedish progressive metal band Seventh Wonder's 2010 album The Great Escape ( Seventh Wonder album ) contains a 30 minute track of the same name which is based on the Aniara saga.

The digging of the escape tunnel in The Great Escape and the singing of the " Marseillaise " to enrage the Germans in Casablanca can first be observed in Renoir's 1937 masterpiece.

* Per Bergsland, nicknamed Peter Rockland, one of three successful escapees in the Stalag Luft III escape, known as the " Great Escape ".

* Sasquatch ( ride ), a S & S Worldwide drop ride at Great Escape amusement park

There are also several music festivals including Big Day Out, Homebake, The Great Escape, Stereosonic and Future Music Festival

Their form seriously dipped in 1998 – 99 as they were rooted to the bottom of the table for much of the first half of the season, but they again avoided relegation on the last day of the season after a late run of good results, helped by the intervention of Latvian Marian Pahars and old hero Le Tissier ( The so-called " Great Escape ").

Modern Life Is Rubbish, Parklife and The Great Escape, helped Blur to achieve mass popularity in the UK, spearheading the Britpop movement.

Blur began working on their fourth album The Great Escape at the start of 1995.

The Great Escape was released in September 1995 to rapturous reviews, and entered the UK charts at number one.

* The restaurant called The Great Escape once was a headquarter of Al Capone.

The Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom, a Six Flags theme park, is located in northwest Queensbury.

Sitek was set to record the bass for the band's fourth studio album, entitled The Great Escape Artist.

On March 30, 2011, a song from The Great Escape Artist, titled " End to the Lies " was premiered on the Chilean radio station Radio Futuro, and was also performed at Lollapalooza Chile on April 3, 2011.

The Great Escape Artist was released on October 18, 2011.

In February 2012, Perry Farrell discussed the possibility of releasing a follow-up to The Great Escape Artist whilst touring in support of the album, stating, " What I have not seen before is a group that's done a record, had somewhat of a theme – escapism – and then done a second record almost as if it was a follow-up movie.

Another good friend of the Coolidges' was George B. Harvey, who was the Ambassador to Great Britain from 1921 to 1923.

On one visit he stopped at the office of the American, where he was known surreptitiously as `` the Great White Chief '', and for the first time met his managing editor, fat Moses Koenigsberg.

I was anxious to hear about those dazzling days on the Great White Way.

And in the dark days after the Great Flood of 1927 -- the worst natural disaster in the state's history -- the little plane was its sole replacement in carrying the United States mails.

His chief discovery was important -- the Great North ( later, the Hudson ) River -- but it produced no northwest passage.

As the bergs grew larger, Hudson was forced to turn south into what is now Ungava Bay, an inlet of the Great Strait.

One who, for a time, succeeded best and was still the sorriest of all was Charles Arthur Shires, who called himself, in the newspapers, Art the Great, or The Great Shires.

The movie was The Great Train Robbery and its effects on the young industry and art were all but incalculable.

she was already considering putting in rebellious requests for duty at San Diego, Bremerton, the Great Lakes, Pensacola -- any place the Navy had a hospital -- with a threat to resign her commission if the request were not granted.

Aristotle (, Aristotélēs ) ( 384 BC – 322 BC ) was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.

Several of the sights on her trip inspired her, and they found their way into her poem, including the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the " White City " with its promise of the future contained within its alabaster buildings ; the wheat fields of America's heartland Kansas, through which her train was riding on July 16 ; and the majestic view of the Great Plains from high atop Zebulon's Pikes Peak.

In Korea, the Hangul alphabet was created by Sejong the Great Hangul is a unique alphabet: it is a featural alphabet, where many of the letters are designed from a sound's place of articulation ( P to look like the widened mouth, L to look like the tongue pulled in, etc.

For English, this is partly because the Great Vowel Shift occurred after the orthography was established, and because English has acquired a large number of loanwords at different times, retaining their original spelling at varying levels.

The idea that the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages are closely related to each other was allegedly first published in 1730 by Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, a Swedish officer who traveled in the eastern Russian Empire while a prisoner of war after the Great Northern War.

In The Double Clue Poirot mentions that he was Chief of Police of Brussels, until " the Great War " ( WWI ) forced him to leave for England.

Tin was rare, however, being found mostly in Great Britain.

Iuliu Maniu ( 1873 – 1953 ) was prime minister with an agrarian cabinet from 1928 to 1930, but the Great Depression made proposed reforms impossible.

304 – 232 BC ), commonly known as Ashoka and also as Ashoka the Great, was an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from ca.

Cuarón's next feature was also a literary adaptation, a modernized version of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations starring Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Robert De Niro.

Philippus claimed descent from Alexander the Great, and was elected consul in 56 BC.

Anthony the Great, who had retired to the Egyptian Thebaid during the persecution of Maximian, AD 312, was the most celebrated among them for his austerities, his sanctity, and his power as an exorcist.