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In 1983, Estonian stage and film actress Ita Ever starred in the Russian language film adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel A Pocket Full of Rye ( using the Russian edition's translated title, The Secret of the Blackbirds ) as the character of Miss Marple.
The above cartoon is a depiction of the nursery rhyme " Little Miss Muffet ", in which the title character is " frightened away " by a spider.
The project involved 3, 400 workers, mostly immigrants from Europe, along with hundreds of Mohawk iron workers, many from the Kahnawake reserve near Montreal. Perhaps the most famous popular culture representation of the building is in the 1933 film King Kong, in which the title character, a giant ape, climbs to the top to escape his captors but falls to his death after being attacked by airplanes.
" The title character was depicted as a nosy, interfering busybody.
Among the tracks he recorded was an early version of " That'll Be The Day ", which took its title from a line that John Wayne's character says repeatedly in the 1956 film The Searchers.
He provided the voice of main character Jake Logan in the PC title, Tachyon: The Fringe, the voice of main character Jake Burton in the PlayStation game Broken Helix and the voice of Magnanimous in Megas XLR.
* Boomer, the title character, a dog, in the 1980 TV series Here's Boomer
* the title character of Cleopatra Jones, a 1973 blaxploitation action film starring Tamara Dobson, and its sequel Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold
Carmilla, the title character, is the original prototype for a legion of female and lesbian vampires.
* Humphry Clinker, title character of Tobias Smollett's 1771 novel The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
She is best known for playing the title character in the Fox comedy-drama series Ally McBeal for which she won a Golden Globe Award.
In October 1967, the British group Nirvana released The Story of Simon Simopath ( subtitled " A Science Fiction Pantomime "), an album that tells the story of the title character.
* ABC aired a short-lived television series in 1964, Destry, based on the first two films, starring John Gavin as the son of the movie's title character.
First published on April 16, 1989 Dilbert is known for its satirical office humor about a white-collar, micromanaged office featuring the engineer Dilbert as the title character.
In the play Oedipus Rex by Ancient Greek playwright Sophocles, the title character discovers the truth about his origins after questioning various witnesses.
In Monsieur Lecoq ( 1868 ), the title character is adept at disguise, a key characteristic of detectives.
Doonesbury is a comic strip by American cartoonist Garry Trudeau, that chronicles the adventures and lives of an array of characters of various ages, professions, and backgrounds, from the President of the United States to the title character, Michael Doonesbury, who has progressed from a college student to a youthful senior citizen in the 40 + years of the strip's daily existence.
In 1953, Day appeared as the title character in the comedic western-themed musical, Calamity Jane, winning the Academy Award for Best Original Song for " Secret Love " ( her recording of which became her fourth U. S. No. 1 recording ).
The title Daodejing is an honorific given by posterity, other titles include the amalgam Lǎozǐ Dàodéjīng ( 老子道德經 ), the honorific Daode Zhen Jing ( 道德真經 " True Classic of the Way and the Power "), and the Wuqian wen ( " Five thousand character ").
* " Vanni Fucci Is Alive and Well and Living In Hell ", a 1988 short story lampooning televangelists included in Prayers to Broken Stones, is about a brief return to earth by the title character, an inhabitant of Dante's Inferno
Detective Comics Inc. soon launched a fourth title, Action Comics, and the premiere of which introduced Superman ( a character with which Wheeler-Nicholson had no direct involvement ; editor Vin Sullivan chose to run the feature after Sheldon Mayer rescued it from the slush pile ).
Her almost 60-year career crossed most media frontiers with both supporting and leading roles, but she may be best-remembered for playing the sardonic but engaging title character, a high school teacher, on Our Miss Brooks, and as the Rydell High School principal in the films Grease and Grease 2.
He last starred on stage as the title character in Visiting Mr. Green.
The above cartoon is a depiction of the nursery rhyme " Little Miss Muffet ", in which the title character is " frightened away " by a spider.

title and created
Although the origins of the term are not referred to in the text, the title served ( along with the general hype created in Australia ) to revive public interest in the legend.
From him it has descended continuously, through fifteen individuals, the title being increased to an Earldom in 1784 ; and in 1876 William Nevill 5th Earl ( b. 1826 ), ( d. 1915 ) an indefatigable and powerful supporter of the Tory Party, was created 1st Marquess of Abergavenny.
In 1979, the title to the landfill was transferred from the city to the Battery Park City Authority, which financially restructured itself and created a new, more viable master plan, designed by Alex Cooper and Stanton Eckstut.
However, when John Knox returned to Scotland in 1559, he continued to use the Form of Prayer he had created for the English exiles in Geneva, and in 1564, this supplanted the Book of Common Prayer under the title of the Book of Common Order.
The rank of commodore was at first a position created as a temporary title to be bestowed upon captains who commanded squadrons of more than one vessel.
The title of Earl of Marlborough, which was created for Churchill in 1689, had been created one time previously in British history, for James Ley, in 1626.
He created an audio CD with the title DRH / JJ, which includes all these compositions performed primarily by pianist Jane Jackson, but with a few performed by Brian Jones, Dafna Barenboim, Gitanjali Mathur and himself.
A surgeon who is also a professor is usually known as " Professor " and, similarly, a surgeon who has been ennobled, knighted, created a baronet or appointed a dame uses the corresponding title ( Lord, Sir, Dame ).
In fact, Despot was an Imperial title, first used under Manuel I Komnenos ( 1143 – 1180 ) who created it for his appointed heir Alexius-Béla.
Since 3 May 1814, the Sovereign Principality of Elba was created a miniature non-hereditary Monarchy under the exiled French Emperor Napoleon I. Napoleon I was allowed, by the treaty of Fontainebleau with ( 27 April ), to enjoy, for life, the imperial title.
The only period when British monarchs held the title of Emperor in a dynastic succession started when the title Empress of India was created for Queen Victoria.
Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, fourth son of the second marriage of the fourth Earl, was a Liberal politician and was created Baron Stanmore in 1893 ( see this title for more information on him and this branch of the family ).
This may even lead to an institutional variability, as in North Korea, where, after the presidency of party leader Kim Il-Sung, the office was vacant for years, the late president being granted the posthumous title ( akin to some ancient Far Eastern traditions to give posthumous names and titles to royalty ) of " Eternal President " ( while all substantive power, as party leader, itself not formally created for four years, was inherited by his son Kim Jong Il, initially without any formal office ) until it was formally replaced on 5 September 1998, for ceremonial purposes, by the office of Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, while the party leader's post as Chairman of the National Defense Commission was simultaneously declared " the highest post of the state ", not unlike Deng Xiaoping earlier in the People's Republic of China.
He almost certainly created the title role for Richard Burbage, the leading tragedian of Shakespeare's time.
Peace was settled in the Treaty of Pressburg ; the Austrian Empire lost the title of Holy Roman Emperor and the Confederation of the Rhine was created by Napoleon over former Austrian territories.
Quake III Arena ( 1999 ), the next title in the series, has minimal plot, but centers around the " Arena Eternal ", a gladiatorial setting created by an alien race known as the Vadrigar and populated by combatants plucked from various points in time and space.
Over the next five decades, he created covers for numerous books and magazines, notably Astounding Science Fiction both before and after its title change to Analog ; Mad magazine ( for whom he painted many early covers featuring the iconic character, Alfred E. Neuman ) from 1958 to 1962 ( he started at Mad in February 1957 and by July 1958 was the magazine's new cover artist ; he painted most of its covers until October 1962 ); cover art for DAW, Signet, Ballantine Books, Avon, all 58 Laser Books ( which are now collectors ' items ), and over 90 covers for Ace books alone.
That the several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government ; but that, by compact, under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States, and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special purposes, delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving, each state to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government ; and that whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force ; that to this compact each state acceded as a state, and is an integral party, its co-States forming, as to itself, the other party ; that this government, created by this compact, was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself, since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers ; but that, as in all other cases of compact among powers having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.
St. Anthony's Lighthouse at St. Anthony's Head near Falmouth, Cornwall was featured in the title sequence of the children's live action puppet television program series Fraggle Rock created by Jim Henson.
Though the concept of a shared universe was not new or unique to comics in 1961, writer / editor Stan Lee, together with several artists including Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, created a series of titles where events in one book would have repercussions in another title and serialized stories would show characters ' growth and change.
Bismarck was created Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen (" Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen ") in 1865 ; this comital title is borne by all his descendants in the male line.
In 1871, he was further created Fürst von Bismarck (" Prince of Bismarck ") and accorded the style of Durchlaucht ( equivalent to " Serene Highness "); this princely title descended only to his eldest male heirs.
The Omphalos hypothesis was named after the title of an 1857 book, Omphalos by Philip Henry Gosse, in which Gosse argued that in order for the world to be " functional ", God must have created the Earth with mountains and canyons, trees with growth rings, Adam and Eve with hair, fingernails, and navels ( omphalos is Greek for " navel "), and that therefore no evidence that we can see of the presumed age of the earth and universe can be taken as reliable.

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