Odessa (Russian: Одесса, pronounced [ɐˈdʲesːə]) or Odesa (Ukrainian: Одеса, pronounced [ɔˈdɛsɑ]) is the third largest city in Ukraine, with a population of 1,003,705. The city is a major seaport located on the northwest shore of the Black Sea and the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast.
The predecessor of Odessa, a small Tatar settlement, was founded by Hacı I Giray, the Khan of Crimea, in 1240 and originally named after him as "Hacıbey"[citation needed]. After a period of Lithuanian control, it passed into the domain of the Ottoman Sultan in 1529 and remained in Ottoman hands until the Ottoman Empire's defeat in the Russo-Turkish War of 1792. The city of Odessa was founded by a decree of the Empress Catherine the Great in 1794. From 1819 to 1858 Odessa was a free port. During the Soviet period it was the most important port of trade in the Soviet Union and a Soviet naval base. On 1 January 2000 the Quarantine Pier of Odessa trade sea port was declared a free port and free economic zone for a term of 25 years.
Wojciech Młynarski (born 1941) is a Polish singer, songwriter and translator. A known figure in the Polish musical scene, he is most famous for sung poetry and ballads, as well as for his collaboration with numerous vocalists and cabarets.
Born March 26, 1941 in Warsaw, he graduated from Tomasz Zan College in Pruszków and then, in 1963, the Faculty of Polish Studies at the Warsaw University. During his university years he started collaboration with the Hybrydy student theatre and cabaret. By mid-1960s he became an established author of texts for numerous cabarets, the most famous of them being the Dudek, Dreszczowiec and Owca. Several of his songs became hits in Polish Television in late 1960s, Młynarski also gained popularity as a translator of French and Russian songwriters, including Jacques Brel, Gilbert Bécaud and Vladimir Vysotsky.
In the 1970s, Młynarski authored numerous operas and musicals, including "Henryk VI na łowach", "Cień" and "Awantura w Recco". He also translated the librettos of Cabaret, Chicago and Jesus Christ Superstar to Polish.
When you look down on a pornstar, you're still looking...
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Mind Taker is about a teenage girl, Heidi, as she copes with amazing telepathic abilities, which she uses to guide and help those around her but, she eventually discovers that she's not the only one with telepathic gifts and not everyone with these gifts use it for good.
Any Good Mind Deserves to Be Taken
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After the infamous terrorist Dmitri Koskov kills an American agent, the CIA sends their best man, Jacques Ryen, after him. Hot on his trail, Ryen soon discovers that Koskov is just the tip of the iceberg in a massive political conspiracy. Left without anyone he trust, Ryen must decide for himself where his true allegiance lies; in his friends, his government, or his country.
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In 1964, a brash new pro boxer, fresh from his olympic gold medal victory, explodes on to the scene, Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an entirely new image for African Americans in sport with his proud public self confidence with his unapologetic belief that he is the greatest boxer of all time. To his credit, he sets out to prove that with his highly agile and forceful style soon making him a formidable boxer who soon claims the heavyweight championship. His personal life is no less noteworthy with his allegiance to the Nation of Islam, his friendship with the controversial Malcolm X and his abandonment of his slave name in favour of Muhammad Ali stirring up controversy. Yet, at the top of his game, both Ali's personal and professional lives face the ultimate test with the military draft rules are changed, making him eligible for military induction during the Vietnam War. Despite the fact that he could easily agree to a sweetheart deal that would have meant an easy tour of duty for himself, Ali refuses to submit on principle to cooperate in an unjust war for a racist nation that treated his people so poorly. The cost of that stand is high as he finds himself unable to legally box in his own country while his case is contested in court. What follows is a battle for a man who would sacrifice so much for what he believes in and a comeback that would cement his legend as one of the great sports figures of all time.
Keywords: 1960s, 1970s, adultery, africa, african-american, african-american-protagonist, african-americans, airplane, american-broadcasting-company, american-flag
Float like a butterfly and sting like a bee.
Forget What You Think You Know
The Champ is here!
Sonji: Are you a virgin?::Muhammad Ali: What do you mean "Am I a virgin"?
Drew 'Bundini' Brown: God don't love us! We be.
[fighting George Foreman]::Muhammad Ali: Is that all you got?
Muhammad Ali: Gonna get me some Champ Burgers.
Belinda: Don King talks black, lives white and thinks green.
Muhammad Ali: Yeah, I know where Vietnam is; it's on TV. Southeast Asia? It's there, too?
Muhammad Ali: Ain't no Vietcong ever called me nigger.
Drew 'Bundini' Brown: Free ain't easy. Free is real. And real's a motherfucker.
Muhammad Ali: Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee His hands can't hit what his eyes can't see.
Muhammad Ali: Damn Don you crazy. You must have studied the whole "D" section of the dictionary.
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In the repercussions of a big robbery the loot shall be taken to a Baltic country to Sweden by the Russian Mafia's female courier. She, however, doesn't know that the robbers had planned to lock her up in the boat, sink it and take care of the loot themselves. The woman manages to save herself from the sinking boat. A Swedish fisherman picks her up and together they suddenly find themselves escaping from two rival criminal gangs. They are from widely different worlds, but now their lives are linked together more and more.
Keywords: breasts, diver, female-nudity, fisherman, russian-mafia, sex-scene
En thriller av Erik Gustavson
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In this action thriller, Denzel Washington plays Nick Styles, the assistant district attorney of L.A. The film opens in his early days as a cop on the L.A.P.D. During a carnival, master criminal Earl Talbot Blake creates a scene after a botched drug deal. Styles and Blake confront each other, during which Blake is wounded by Styles and later sent to prison. Seven years later, Blake escapes from prison during a parole board hearing to carry out his revenge against Styles, and what follows is a violent series of events that destroys Styles' career. This sets the stage for one last bloody duel between Styles and Blake.
Keywords: 1980s, arm-wrestling, aryan-brotherhood, bad-guy, balisong, basketball, black-cop, brawl, capture, child-pornography
He's a cop accused of murder. And the only man who knows he's innocent is the killer who framed him.
This is one case that's going to be settled out of court.
Odessa: Do you wanna know who's really got the power? Bring your ass to the tower.
Nick Styles: What the fuck is wrong with all y'all? Selling drugs to each other, 'cause ya damn sure ain't selling them in Beverly Hills. Killing yourselves, and for what? Make ya feel like a man? Or does it make ya dick hard? Punk motherfuckers.
[Nick is trying to persuade Odessa to stop dealing at the Towers]::Nick Styles: Do it for your mother.::Odessa: What about my mother, motherfucker?::Nick Styles: Your mother, nigga! The one that died of a broken heart, praying with my father every night over your sorry ass. The one that buried your kid brother without his head because they couldn't find it. Don't play me, Odessa.
Bookstore owner: You're the D.A.!::Nick Styles: Wrong! They fired me. As a private citizen I can kick anybody's ass I want to.
Parole Board Official: Mr. Blake, what will you do if you get out of prison?::Blake: [thinking] Well, I guess, Mr. Chairman, that first I'll pay a visit to your house.::Parole Board Official: To thank me, I suppose?::Blake: No... to fuck your wife. And your daughter. Hell, maybe even your dog.
Nick Styles: I guess a Beretta in the butt beats a butterfly in a boot, huh?
[after taking a female hostage]::Earl Talbot Blake: Pork, back off or else she's gonna need a paper bag over her head when her boyfriend fucks what's left of her!
Earl Talbot Blake: I'm gonna do something far worse than kill you. I'm gonna let you live.
Alice Styles: You lied to me.::Nick Styles: I didn't lie to you. I just didn't tell the whole truth.::Alice Styles: You're such a lawyer.
Earl Talbot Blake: What the fuck is going on?::Kim: It's Styles. His friends grabbed me and dragged me here.::Earl Talbot Blake: That's impossible!::Kim: Well, I saw him.::Earl Talbot Blake: I killed his life, and he killed himself. You're lying!::Kim: Lying? You stupid, macho fuck! I can't believe this! I can't believe that I've been kissing your ass all these fucking years, and you're such a shithead! You didn't kill his life, and you didn't fuck his mind. You know what you did? You pissed him off. You really fucking pissed him off, and now you're fucked!