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Entertainment
Entertainment Outer space is big business for the entertainment world. The earliest record of a work of science fiction, written to fuel the imagination and entertain the public, was the Greek satirist Lucian's Vera historia(True history), penned around C.E. 170. In... Read more |
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Walt Disney
Walt Disney (Walter Elias Disney) , 1901-66, American movie producer and pioneer in animated cartoons, b. Chicago. He grew up in Missouri, in the small town of Marceline and in Kansas City. He moved to Chicago in 1917, where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and began (1920) his career as a... Read more |
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Walt Disney Company
Walt Disney Company 500 South Buena Vista StreetBurbank, California 91521U.S.A.(818) 560-1000Fax: (818) 840-1930 Public Company Incorporated: 1938 as Walt Disney ProductionsEmployees: 58,000Sales: $6.18 billionStock Exchanges: New York Pacific Midwest Tokyo A colossal force in the... Read more |
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The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company 500 South Buena Vista Street Burbank, California 91521 U.S.A. Telephone: (818) 560-1000 Fax: (818) 840-1930 Web site: http://www.disney.com Public Company Incorporated: 1938 as Walt Disney Productions Employees: 117,000 Sales: $27.06 billion (2003) Stock... Read more |
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Space Program
SPACE PROGRAM SPACE PROGRAM. In the late nineteenth century, fiction writers like Jules Verne and H. G. Wells published novels focusing on space travel in various forms. Although fictitious, these stories would spark the imaginations of several of the early rocket scientists, whose endeavors... Read more |
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John Hubley
John Hubley When the people who worked with animator John Hubley (1914-1977) spoke of him, they agreed that he was a creative genius, a designer who would push the envelope of his medium, a man of vision with the ability to follow a dream. Working with him could also be very difficult. ... Read more |
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Michael D. Eisner
Michael Eisner1942family:Lucida Sans Unicode;">– Chief executive officer, The Walt Disney Company Nationality: American. Born: March 7, 1942, in Mt. Kisco, New York. Education: Denison University, BA, 1964. Family: Son of Lester Eisner and Margaret Dammann; married Jane Breckenridge;... Read more |
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Carl Stalling
STALLING, Carl Composer. Nationality:American. Career:1920s—accompanist for silent films; 1928—musical director at Walt Disney's studios; 1931–36—employed by Ub Iwerks's studio; 1936–57—musical director for Warner Bros. cartoons. Died:29 November... Read more |
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ET
ET Extraterrestrial—a hypothetical, imagined or alleged being from outer space. The concept of visiting extraterrestrials has grown and developed since the mid-nineteenth century. As early as June 1864, a French newspaper reported the discovery of a mummified humanoid body inside a hollow,... Read more |
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L M Montgomery
L. M. Montgomery (Lucy Maud Montgomery), 1874-1942, Canadian novelist, b. Prince Edward Island. Her first novel, Anne of Green Gables (1908), met with immediate success and has been widely translated. Anne Shirley, the novel's heroine, is a spirited, witty young girl with red hair and a wild... Read more |
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