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Major is a military rank. The word derives from Latin maior, which means greater. It may also refer to:

Music[link]

• Major and minor, types of scale, key, chord or interval; also,
  • Major scale
  • Major chord
  • The names of various intervals, such as a Major third or Major sixth
• Major, a method of Change ringing rung on eight church bells
• The Majors (band), an American R&B group
• Majors (band), a Danish hip-hop group

People[link]

Surname

• Clarence Major (born 1936), American poet
• Edward Major (1615–c. 1655), Virginia colonial politician
• John Major (born 1943), British Prime Minister
• John C. Major (born 1931), Canadian jurist
• Corporal Leo Major (1921–2008), Corporal in the Canadian Army
• Mark Major (born 1970), Canadian ice hockey player
• William James Major (1881–1953), Canadian politician and jurist
• Bill Majors (born 1960), American Christian missionary
• Johnny Majors (born 1935), American football player and coach
• Lee Majors (born 1939), American actor
• Shirley Majors (1914–1981), American football coach; father of several notable football players and coaches, the most famous being Johnny Majors
• Les Major (1926–2001), English footballer
• William T. Major (1790-1867), American pastor

Given or nickname

• Major Applewhite (born 1978), American football quarterback and coach
• Major Harris (born 1968), American football quarterback
• Marshall Taylor (1878–1932), known as 'Major' Taylor, American cyclist
• Rod Majors, nom de porn of porn star and award winning journalist Matt Sanchez

Fictional

• Major Gowen, character on the British television series Fawlty Towers
• Major Major Major Major, character in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22
• The Major (Hellsing), character in the Japanese manga series Hellsing
• The Major, nickname of Motoko Kusanagi, character in the Japanese anime/manga series Ghost in the Shell

Places[link]

• Major, Saskatchewan, a village in Canada
• Lake Major, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Mount Major, a small mountain in New Hampshire, United States
• Major, the Hungarian name for Maieru Commune, Bistriţa-Năsăud County, Romania

Species[link]

Latin binomial abbreviations for species

Sport[link]

• Description of some professional sports leagues when they represent an important (often the highest) level of competition in the hierarchy:
  • Major League Baseball
  • Major League Soccer
  • mid-major (American college sports)

• In golf, a "major championship" is one of an elite tier of annual tournaments:
  • Men's golf:
    • Men's major golf championships (these are the first ever "major" titled annual tournaments in any sport)
      • The Masters
      • U.S. Open
      • The Open Championship (also called "British Open")
      • PGA Championship
    • Senior major golf championships
      • Senior PGA Championship
      • The Tradition
      • Senior Players Championship
      • U.S. Senior Open
      • The Senior Open Championship
  • Women's major golf championships
    • Kraft Nabisco Championship
    • LPGA Championship
    • U.S. Women's Open
    • Women's British Open

• In tennis, the four Grand Slam events are referred to as the "majors":
  • Australian Open
  • French Open
  • The Championships, Wimbledon
  • US Open

• The Major Brothers, the professional wrestling tag team of Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder,
• "Major score" or "major", an alternate term in Canadian football for the scoring play also known as a touchdown.

Other[link]

• Academic major, the primary focus of a Bachelor's degree, in the United States and some other countries
• Major (law), a person with the full legal rights of an adult
• Major (manga), a baseball-related Japanese manga/anime series
• Major film studios, film studios (mostly United States-based) that produce many films per year
• Major, an older sibling, when two British Public school students have the same surname
• Major, an American tactical missile developed by Redstone Arsenal
• Major, an Irish cigarette brand produced by Carroll's, a subsidiary of British American Tobacco

See also[link]

• Majority
• Majorat
• Mayor

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A busy signal (or busy tone or engaged tone) in telephony is an audible or visual signal to the calling party that indicates failure to complete the requested connection of that particular telephone call.

There are several distinctly different types of busy signals:

• a reorder tone, (sometimes called a fast busy signal), indicates that no transmission path to the called number is available;
• an otherwise unspecified busy signal indicates that the called number is occupied or otherwise unavailable;
• this tone sometimes occurs at the end of a call to indicate the other party has hung up. See disconnect supervision.

Many different countries have different signalling tones that act as "busy signals".

	Example of a North American busy signal Listen to a busy signal from North America. Example of an old North American busy signal Listen to a busy signal from North America used prior to 1980.
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References[link]

• Federal Standard 1037C
• MIL-STD-188

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Lee Majors
Lee Majors, 2008
Born	Harvey Lee Yeary (1939-04-23) April 23, 1939 (age 73) Wyandotte, Michigan, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1964–present
Spouse	Kathy Robinson (1961-1964) Farrah Fawcett (1973-1982) Karen Velez (1988-1994) Faith Noelle Cross (2002-present)
Children	3 sons, 1 daughter

Lee Majors (born Harvey Lee Yeary on April 23, 1939) is an American television, film and voice actor, best known for his roles as Heath Barkley in the TV series The Big Valley (1965 - 1969), as Colonel Steve Austin in The Six Million Dollar Man (1973–1978) and as Colt Seavers in The Fall Guy (1981–1986).

He is also known as Owen Marshall's law partner/friend, Jess Brandon, in the 1971–1974 series Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law. In the late 1980s and 1990s he reprised the role of Steve Austin in a number of TV movies, and appeared in a number of supporting, recurring and cameo roles in feature films and TV series, and lent his voice to a number of animated TV series and video games.

Early life[link]

Majors was born in the Detroit suburb of Wyandotte, Michigan. Parents Carl & Alice Yeary were both killed in separate car accidents (prior to his birth and when he was one year old respectively) and at age two, Majors was adopted by an uncle and aunt, Harvey and Mildred Yeary, and moved with them, and their biological son, Bill, to Middlesboro, Kentucky.^{[citation needed]}

Since his adoptive older brother had been a football star in school, Majors tirelessly committed himself to the sport. While a student at Middlesboro High School, he participated in many sports from track to football. He graduated in 1957, and earned a scholarship to Indiana University, where he again competed in sports. Majors transferred to Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky, in 1959. He played in his first game the following year, but suffered a severe back injury which left him paralyzed for two weeks, and ended his college football career. Following his injury, he turned his attention to acting and performed in plays at the Pioneer Playhouse in Danville, Kentucky. Majors graduated from Eastern in 1962 with a degree in History and Physical Education.^{[citation needed]}

After college, he received an offer to try out for the St. Louis Cardinals football team. Instead, he moved to Los Angeles and found work at the Los Angeles Park and Recreation Department as the Recreation Director for North Hollywood Park. This was after a brief stint playing for the new football franchise Boston Patriots as a safety. In LA, Majors met many actors and industry professionals, including Dick Clayton, who had been James Dean's agent, and Clayton suggested he attend his acting school. After one year of acting school, Clayton felt that Majors was ready to start his career. At this time, he picked up the stage name Lee Majors as a tribute to childhood hero Johnny Majors who was a player and future coach for the University of Tennessee. Majors also studied at Estelle Harmon's acting school at MGM.^{[citation needed]}

Career[link]

Early roles[link]

At age 25, Majors landed his first, although uncredited, role in Strait-Jacket (1964), which starred Joan Crawford. After appearing in a 1965 episode of Gunsmoke, he starred as Howard White in an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, “The Monkey’s Paw - A Retelling,” based on the short story by W. W. Jacobs later the same year.

Majors got his big break when he beat out over 400 young actors, including Burt Reynolds, for the co-starring role of Heath Barkley in a new ABC western series, The Big Valley, which starred Barbara Stanwyck. Also starring on the show was another newcomer, Linda Evans, who played Heath's younger sister, Audra. Richard Long and Peter Breck played his brothers Jarrod and Nick, respectively. One of Heath's frequently used expressions during the series was "Boy howdy!" Big Valley was an immediate hit. During the series, Majors co-starred in the 1968 Charlton Heston film Will Penny, for which he received an "Introducing" credit, and landed the lead role in The Ballad of Andy Crocker (1969), a made-for-television film which was first broadcast by ABC. The film is notable as being one of the very first films to deal with the subject matter of Vietnam veterans "coming home". That same year, he was offered the chance to star in Midnight Cowboy (1969), but The Big Valley was renewed for another season and he was forced to decline the role (which later went to Jon Voight). When The Big Valley was cancelled in 1969, he signed a long-term contract with Universal Studios. In 1970, Majors joined the cast of The Virginian for its last season.

In 1971, he landed the role of Arthur Hill's partner, Jess Brandon, on Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law, which garnered critical acclaim during its three seasons on ABC. In one episode, his then girlfriend, Farrah Fawcett, guest-starred.

[edit] The Six Million Dollar Man

Majors' co-starring role on Owen Marshall led him to a starring role as Colonel Steve Austin, an ex-astronaut with bionic implants in The Six Million Dollar Man, a 1973 television movie broadcast on ABC.

In 1974, the network decided to turn it into a weekly series. The series became a huge international success, being screened in over 70 countries, turning Majors into one of the leading pop icons of the 70's, and, along with his then wife Farrah Fawcett, who herself was soon to become a leading pop icon of the 70's, into one of Hollywood's high-profile power couples with both appearing on the cover of magazines everywhere.

Majors also made his directorial debut in 1975, on an episode called "One of Our Running Backs Is Missing" which co-starred professional football players such as Larry Csonka and Dick Butkus.

In 1977, with The Six Million Dollar Man still a hit series, Majors tried to renegotiate his contract with Universal Television. The studio in turn filed a lawsuit to force him to report to work due to stipulations within his existing contract that had not yet expired. When he did not report to work that June, studio executives relented and offered Majors a raise.^{[citation needed]} However, ratings began to decline and The Six Million Dollar Man was cancelled in March 1978 (as was The Bionic Woman). In November 2010, Time Life released a 40 DVD set featuring every episode and bonus features from the show.^[1]

[edit] The Fall Guy

In 1981, Majors returned in another long-running television series. Producer Glen A. Larson (who had first worked with Majors on Alias Smith and Jones, where Majors had a one-episode part, and later on The Six Million Dollar Man) asked him to star in the pilot of The Fall Guy. Majors played Colt Seavers, a Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a bounty hunter. Majors was also a producer and a director on the show, and even sang its theme song, the self-effacing "Unknown Stuntman." Majors also invited several longtime friends, Linda Evans, Peter Breck, Lindsay Wagner and Richard Anderson, to guest-star in various episodes. The series ran for five seasons until it was cancelled in 1986.

1987 - present[link]

Between 1987 and 1994, Majors and Lindsay Wagner reunited in three The Six Million Dollar Man/The Bionic Woman TV movies. Majors also made a cameo appearance in the 1988 holiday comedy Scrooged.

In 1990, he had a recurring role in Tour of Duty, and a recurring role in the short-lived 1992 series, Raven. He also made cameo appearances in Out Cold (2001) Big Fat Liar (2002) and The Brothers Solomon (2007) The Story of Bonnie and Clyde (2010)

Majors voiced the character of "Big" Mitch Baker in the 2002 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.

Majors played Jaret Reddick's disconnected father in Bowling For Soup's 2007 video, "When We Die." That same year, he played Grandpa Max in Ben 10: Race Against Time, and voiced a character on the APTN animated children's program Wapos Bay: The Series that was named "Steve from Austin". He also played a minor role in Stephen King's The Mist.

Majors played Coach Ross on the CW Network's television series The Game, which ran from October 1, 2006 to May 20, 2009.^[2]

Majors appeared in the role of God in "Jim Almighty" a 2007 episode of According to Jim. He would later return to the role in that show's 2009 series finale, "Heaven Opposed to Hell". Also in 2008, Majors played a member of the Minutemen (dedicated to preventing illegal border crossings) in Season Four of the Showtime series Weeds, where he recruits Kevin Nealon’s character.

Lee Majors appeared on ITVs The British Comedy Awards 2009 on December 12, 2009 alongside Claudia Winkleman.

In March 2010 Majors played the crusty sailing instructor in the Community episode "Beginner Pottery". The following month, he appeared as the mentor of the series lead in "Christopher Chance", the 12th episode of Human Target. Later that year, he provided the voice of General Abernathy in G.I. Joe: Renegades. He would later reprise the role in a 2011 episode. In 2011 he also made a brief appearance as Don Reger in the 2011 episode "Well Suitored" of the CBS series $#*! My Dad Says.

In March to April 2012, Majors will be in a film in Seattle called Matt's Chance alongside Edward Furlong, Margot Kidder and Gary Busey.

Personal life[link]

Majors has been married four times:

• Kathy Robinson (married 1961, divorced 1964). The couple had one child, Lee Majors II (born April 8, 1962) who would later appear in an episode of The Fall Guy and the three Six Million Dollar Man/Bionic Woman reunion movies with his father.
• Farrah Fawcett, actress, (married July 28, 1973, separated 1979, divorced February 16, 1982). During the first six years of their marriage, she was billed as Farrah Fawcett-Majors. In 1976, the couple simultaneously starred in separate top-rated shows (The Six Million Dollar Man and Charlie's Angels). After they split, Fawcett famously said, "If he's the six-million-dollar man, I'm the ten-billion-dollar woman." When Fawcett died on June 25, 2009, after her three-year-long battle with anal cancer, Majors issued a statement which read, "She fought a tremendous battle against a terrible disease. She was an angel on earth and now an angel forever." Besides attending her funeral, several reports indicated that Majors reconnected with Fawcett before her death.^[3]
• Karen Velez, Playboy Playmate, (married 1988, divorced 1994); one daughter, Nikki Loren, and twin sons, Dane Luke and Trey Kulley.^[4]
• Faith Majors, actress and model, (married on November 1, 2002).

In the middle of 2003, Majors had heart bypass surgery.^[5]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Lee Majors

• Lee Majors at the Internet Movie Database

Shaher "Ronnie" Khalil is an Egyptian-American stand-up comedian and actor. He has headlined across four continents, toured the United States as a guest performer with the “Axis of Evil”, performed with “Arabs Gone Wild” and taped two “Friday Night Live” Showtime Comedy specials in Dubai,^[1][2] including “Minorities Rule” and “New World Order”, both were shown across 14 countries in the Middle East. Ronnie has performed in sold-out shows across the Middle East and was part of the first-ever Amman Stand-up Comedy Festival in Jordan,^[3] as well as numerous other comedy festivals including the New York Underground, NY Arab-American, South Beach, Los Angeles and Boston Comedy Festivals. He was also twice invited to the Montreal Comedy Festival's "Just for Pitching."^[4] Ronnie has been featured on sketches for “Conan O’Brian”, ABC News, NPR, Air America, CNN and Al Jazeera, as well as in Comedy Central's online show "The Watch List", which was later picked up for a pilot, and A&E's "15 Films About Madonna."

Khalil is Executive Producer of the first ever Middle Eastern Comedy Festival in Los Angeles, which premiered September 2009, with the goal of changing stereotypes in the Hollywood entertainment industry.^[5][6]

Khalil grew up in Miami, FL, where he was a founding member of "The Miami Comics", an ethnically diverse group of stand-up comedians.^[7]

In addition to stand-up, Khalil earned his M.B.A. from the University of Miami,^[7] and lectures in colleges throughout the United States regarding success and motivation. His most popular lectures are “Success through C.O.M.E.D.Y.” and “Networking: How to Avoid Really Hard Work.” Both Khalil’s parents were university professors, and his father is currently President of Nile University in Cairo, Egypt.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Ronnie Khalil on Twitter
• Ronnie Khalil at IMDB
• "Ronnie Khalil - Ronnie Khalil's parents may throw him a surprise wedding." (video). The Watch List. Comedy Central.
• Ronnie Khalil's The Comedy Course. ArabComedy.org. New York Arab-American Comedy Festival.