Stephen or Steven ( /ˈstiːvən/) is a masculine first name, derived from the Greek name Στέφανος (Stephanos) meaning "crown, garland", in turn from the Greek word "στέφανος", meaning "wreath, crown, honour, reward", literally "that which surrounds or encompasses". In ancient Greece, a wreath was given to the winner of a contest (from which the crown, symbol of rulers derived). The use of the noun was first recorded in Homer's Iliad. The name is significant to Christians: according to the Book of Acts in the New Testament, Saint Stephen was a deacon who was stoned to death and is regarded as the first Christian martyr. The name has many variants, which include Stephan, Stevan, Stefan and Stevon.
In Middle English, the name Stephen or Stephan was pronounced as a bi-syllabic word — Step-hen or Step-han — much like a Scandinavian surname. Steve was pronounced as it is in Modern English. This etymological usage began a decline in the mid-19th century.
Steve is the common short form, while various diminutives such as Stevie are also used. Many family names are derived from Stephen: the most common are Stephens/Stevens and Stephenson/Stevenson (others include Stephen, Stephan, Staphan, Stefan, Stevin and Stever).
Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA (born 8 January 1942) is a British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author. His key scientific works to date have included providing, with Roger Penrose, theorems regarding gravitational singularities in the framework of general relativity, and the theoretical prediction that black holes should emit radiation, which is today known as Hawking radiation (or sometimes as Bekenstein–Hawking radiation).
He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a lifetime member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and in 2009 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States. Hawking was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge between 1979 and 2009. Subsequently, he became research director at the university's Centre for Theoretical Cosmology.
Hawking has a motor neurone disease related to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a condition that has progressed over the years. He is now almost completely paralysed and communicates through a speech generating device. He has been married twice and has three children. Hawking has achieved success with works of popular science in which he discusses his own theories and cosmology in general; these include A Brief History of Time, which stayed on the British Sunday Times best-sellers list for a record-breaking 237 weeks.
Stephen James Merchant (born 24 November 1974) is an English writer, director, radio presenter, comedian, and actor. He is best known for his collaborations with Ricky Gervais, as the co-writer and co-director of the popular British sitcom The Office, as the co-writer, co-director and a co-star of Extras, and as the co-host of The Ricky Gervais Show in its radio, podcast, audiobook and television-show forms. The Ricky Gervais Show in radio form has won a bronze Sony Award.
Merchant appeared in the BBC TV series Life's Too Short in which he co-wrote and co-directs. He also voiced the character Wheatley in the popular 2011 video game Portal 2, co-developed Sky TV travel series An Idiot Abroad, and performs as a stand-up comedian. He has won three BAFTA Awards, four British Comedy Awards, and an Emmy.
Merchant was born in Bristol, England, the son of Jane Elaine (née Hibbs), a nursery nurse, and Ronald John Merchant, an insurance representative. He attended Hanham High School. As he has described in Xfm London shows and podcasts, Merchant was a very shy child, tending to focus more on school work as opposed to sport. His school yearbook predicted that he would enjoy success.
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books. As of 2011, King has written and published 49 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman, five non-fiction books, and nine collections of short stories. Many of his stories are set in his home state of Maine.
King has received Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, British Fantasy Society Awards, his novella The Way Station was a Nebula Award novelette nominee, and in 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded him the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He has also received awards for his contribution to literature for his whole career, such as the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement (2004), the Canadian Booksellers Association Lifetime Achievement Award (2007) and the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America (2007).
Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.
He was born as Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts; he was orphaned young when his mother died shortly after his father abandoned the family. Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan, of Richmond, Virginia, but they never formally adopted him. He attended the University of Virginia for one semester but left due to lack of money. After enlisting in the Army and later failing as an officer's cadet at West Point, Poe parted ways with the Allans. His publishing career began humbly, with an anonymous collection of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827), credited only to "a Bostonian".
Three brothers - one stepfather.
There are no laws during time of war.
Plot
Newhighers is a comedy about two roommates and their loss and pursuit of employment. NEWHIGHERS is a double edge sword. On one edge it's about two roommates and several others being given employment under false pretenses. And on the other edge it's about the total embracement of the weed culture.
Keywords: independent-film
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Hannah is a recent college graduate interning at a Chicago production company. She is crushing on two writers at work, Matt and Paul, who share an office and keep her entertained. Will a relationship with one of them disrupt the delicate balance of their friendship?
Keywords: abs, anti-depressant, apology, bare-breasts, bath, bathtub, beach, beer, bicycle, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship
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Charlie is a London youngster who,with his friends,indulges in streaking and petty crime. However he aspires to better himself though his reckless friend Justin ruins his chances of working with his cousin Hector as an estate agent. Another of Charlie's friends Francis learns that his girlfriend has been unfaithful with the older Eddie and seeks revenge but ends up getting run over by Eddie. Justin steals a gun and drags a reluctant Charlie along to kill Eddie,though he only wounds him. The two boys end up on a roof with the police below before their fates are finally settled.
Keywords: baseball-bat, best-friend, black-british, block-of-flats, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, breaking-a-car-window, british, burglary, character-name-in-title, cheating-girlfriend
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In Alaska, Susannah Stanton and Jesse Stanton divorced two years ago. They have two daughters, the teenager Bridget and the young girl Hannah, and a young son, Sam, and they are good friends. Jesse lives in an isolated ranch, where he receives guests for fishing and tracking, and he depends on his plane to go to the city of Anchorage, where Susannah has a restaurant. They separated because Susannah felt bored and lonely in the ranch. Susannah is dating a lawyer, and their children decide to find a woman for Jesse, sending a letter to a popular magazine called Alaskan Love. He receives a large number of replies, and the children later feel that probably his perfect match is Susannah, and they try to arrange a plan to bring them together.
Keywords: airport, alaska, barbecue, bed-and-breakfast, bicycling, biplane, birthday-cake, birthday-party, brother-sister-relationship, camera
After placing a singles ad for their father, three kids scheme to hook him up with his perfect match...their mother.
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
November 10th, a cold dark night
Oh, you could feel that something wasn't right
That night many hearts did cry
When we learned we had to say goodbye
All embraced under one common song
The body is dead but life lives on
Goodbye Steven, goodbye you friend
You were so young, you were so young
Goodbye Steven, goodbye you friend
You were so, so young
The cars lined the streets, as it was coming to an end
The sun shined so brightly, the day we buried our friend
All embraced under one common song
The body is dead but life lives on
Goodbye Steven, goodbye you friend
You were so young, you were so young
Goodbye Steven, goodbye you friend
You were so young, you were so young
Losing in the fall, lost innocence came down
An 18 year old boy was buried in the ground
A family's broken hearts, a friend's streaming tears
The light lost in death, the living's growing fears
Of eternal darkness or spiritual light
To come with terms with death on the darkest night
A brother lost a brother, a friend lost a friend
A mother lost a son but Steven's soul will never end, never end
A brother lost a brother, a friend lost a friend
A mother lost a son but Steven's soul will never end
A brother lost a brother, a friend lost a friend
A mother lost a son but Steven's soul will never end
A brother lost a brother, a friend lost a friend
A mother lost a son but Steven's soul will never end
[Incomprehensible]
Why did you go so far away?
When all I wanted was for you to please stay
I've been sleeping these months away
Cause Stephen you're my night and day
All of those times
That I was unkind
Can't stop regretting
Memories stuck in my mind
Something I just don't know what to say
Stephen you're my night and day
There was a time
When I would say that things would be okay
But not today
I've been sleeping these months away
Cause Stephen you're my night and day
Cause Stephen
Oh Stephen
Cause Stephen you're my night and day
Stephen, the flags at half-mast at the station
Theres a cloud hanging over this town
The wind blows apologies; the sun looks ashamed
As it hides out behind Portadown
And out there are children still raised on old anger
Who believe theres a reason to fight
A piece of lands only a piece of land
And you will not come home tonight
Stephen, the uniformed visitors came,
Unexpectedly, late yesterday
I opened the door to a man and a woman
And I knew what theyd come here to say
Oh, Ive never seen any darkness so deep
As the moment when I clicked off the light
And a piece of lands only a piece of land
But you will not come home tonight
Stephen, the news has been filled with your picture
It seems the whole world knows your name
And would you believe there was Martin McGuinness
Out condemning these bastards to blame?
Oh, Ive never seen so much orange and green
Come together on a thin strip of white
Still, a piece of lands only a piece of land
And you will not come home tonight
Yes, a piece of lands only a piece of land
We're southern boys with western smiles
We've got it where it counts
See it for miles
Our hearts are gold and our teeth are clouded
Our bones are thin and our lips are shrouded
In mystery
When Stephen smiles my heart just seems to grow
If only I could let that poor boy go
Skinny body, skinny body
Skinny body, skinny body
Won't you pick my pieces up from the floor
I'm up here on the shelf, I'm here
When it comes to perfect smiles, I'm fast
I hope you feel as I do, I do
'Cause we're southern boys with western smiles
We're southern boys with western smiles
Stephen, Stephen
Seems that I've been left up here on the shelf again
If you'd come I'd surely dust my skinny bones down
I'd give you every single dream you wanted
I'd even smile for you
I'd even cry if you just want me to
When Stephen smiles my heart just seems to grow
When Stephen smiles my heart just seems to grow
When Stephen smiles, when Stephen smiles
You'll know, you'll know, 'cause you'll know
You'll know, 'cause you'll know
Skinny body, skinny body
Stephen was a stable groom
He watered five foals all and some
Ere the morning star was risen
Nor daylight to be seen
He saw a star was fair and bright
Over Bedl'em standing
Of a truth the Prophet now is born
That all the world shall ransom
He leads the foals from water
By that star so gleaming
And he is gone into the hall
Where Herod sat amusing
There is a child in Bedl'em born
And He is better than we all
Herod answered thus to Him
I'll not believe your story
I'll not believe your story, boy
Till the ragged bird that is on the board
Claps his wings and crows my Lord
In truth it is his birthday
Now Herod sat and he did wait
The bird came together on the plate
Feathered was he never so fair
As he flew up on the red gold chair
He clapped his wings and he crew so fair
My Lord this is his birthday
And Herod down from his kingly seat
In grief has fell a swooning
Stephen was a stable groom
He watered five foals all and some
Ere the morning star was risen
Stephen, king of everything
Stephen, you think of everything
Carry me to the fountain of youth
I'll go anywhere if anywhere's with you
Oh Stephen, king of everything
Stephen, please don't say anything
Stephen, take off your wedding ring
People may say that you've lost your way
I'll stand by you forever and a day
Oh Stephen, king of everything
Why did you go so far away?
When all I wanted was for you to please stay
I've been sleeping these months away
Cause Stephen you're my night and day
All of those times
That I was unkind
Can't stop regretting
Memories stuck in my mind
Something I just don't know what to say
Stephen you're my night and day
There was a time
When I would say that things would be okay
But not today
I've been sleeping these months away
Cause Stephen you're my night and day
Cause Stephen
Oh Stephen