Bristol i/ˈbrɪstəl/ is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone (LUZ) with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007. It is England's sixth and the United Kingdom's eighth most populous city, one of the group of English Core Cities and the most populous city in South West England.
Historically within Gloucestershire, the city received a Royal Charter in 1155 and was granted County status in 1373. From the 13th century, for half a millennium, it ranked amongst the top three English cities after London, alongside York and Norwich, on the basis of tax receipts, until the rapid rise of Liverpool, Birmingham and Manchester during the Industrial Revolution in the latter part of the 18th century. It borders the counties of Somerset and Gloucestershire, and is also located near the historic cities of Bath to the south east and Gloucester to the north. The city is built around the River Avon, and it also has a short coastline on the Severn Estuary, which flows into the Bristol Channel.
Lee Richard Samuel Mansell (born 23 September 1982 in Gloucester, England) is an English footballer, who can play midfield for Torquay United and is the current captain.
Mansell was born in Gloucester and began his career as a trainee with Luton Town, turning professional with the Hatters in August 2000. He made his first-team debut on 17 January 2001 in a 2–1 defeat away to Queens Park Rangers in an FA Cup 3rd Round Replay, with his league debut coming 6 days later in a 2–0 defeat away to Oldham Athletic.
He had a spell on loan with Nuneaton Borough in March 2003, scoring twice in five games. He returned to Luton, but was released at the end of the 2004–05 season, having scored 8 times in 47 league games. He moved to Oxford United in June 2005, and played 44 times the following season as Oxford were relegated to the Conference.
He was transferred to Torquay United, one of the sides to survive at Oxford's expense on the last day of the previous season, on 5 July 2006 for an undisclosed fee. He was a regular in Torquay's side in the 2006–07 season but, for a second season in a row, the side he played for was relegated to the Conference National.
Joan Alexandra Molinsky (born June 8, 1933), better known by her stage name Joan Rivers, is an American television personality, comedian, and actress. She is known for her brash manner; her loud, raspy voice with a heavy New York accent; and her numerous cosmetic surgeries. Rivers' comic style relies heavily on her ability to poke fun at herself and other Hollywood celebrities.
Joan Rivers was born Joan Alexandra Molinsky in Brooklyn, a borough of New York City, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants Beatrice (née Grushman; January 6, 1906 – October 1975) and Meyer C. Molinsky (December 7, 1900 – January 1985). She was raised in Brooklyn, New York, and her family later moved to Larchmont, in Westchester County, New York. She attended Connecticut College between 1950 and 1952 and graduated from Barnard College in 1954 with a bachelor-of-arts degree in English literature and anthropology. Before entering show business, Rivers worked at various jobs such as a tour guide at Rockefeller Center, a writer/proofreader at an advertising agency and as a fashion consultant at Bond Clothing Stores. During this period, the agent Tony Rivers advised her to change her name, so she chose Joan Rivers as her stage name.
Bristol Sheeran Marie Palin (born October 18, 1990) is the second child and oldest daughter of former Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin and her husband, Todd.
After Bristol Palin became a single mother at age 18, she began to publicly advocate teenage pregnancy prevention, and is now a paid speaker on the subject of teen pregnancy.
She competed in the fall 2010 season of Dancing with the Stars, where she received lower scores from the judges than some other contestants but was voted through week after week by fans. She reached the finals, finishing in third place.
Palin was born and raised in Wasilla, Alaska. She was named "Bristol" after the Bristol Inn where her mother Sarah was employed; Bristol, Connecticut, the headquarters city of ESPN, where her mother Sarah hoped to work as a sportscaster; and the Bristol Bay area of Alaska, where her father Todd grew up.
Beginning in 2005, Bristol attended Juneau-Douglas High School and began dating Levi Johnston. In 2008, she briefly lived in Anchorage with her aunt and uncle and attended West Anchorage High School. She returned to Wasilla, where she graduated from Wasilla High School in May 2009.
Brian Harold May, CBE (born 19 July 1947) is an English musician and astrophysicist most widely known as the guitarist, songwriter and occasional singer of the rock band Queen. As a guitarist he uses his home-built guitar, "Red Special", and has composed hits such as "Tie Your Mother Down", "I Want It All", "We Will Rock You", "Fat Bottomed Girls" and "Who Wants to Live Forever".
He was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2005 for "services to the music industry and his charity work". May earned a PhD in astrophysics from Imperial College in 2007 and is currently the Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University. May currently resides in Surrey.
In 2005, a Planet Rock poll saw May voted the 7th greatest guitarist of all time. He was ranked at No. 26 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
Brian May, the only child of Harold and Ruth May, was born in Hampton, London and attended Hampton Grammar School (now Hampton School). During this time he formed his first band with vocalist and bassist Tim Staffell, named Nineteen Eighty-Four after George Orwell's novel of the same name. He left Hampton Grammar School with ten GCE Ordinary Levels and three Advanced Levels in Physics, Mathematics and Applied Mathematics. He studied Mathematics and Physics at Imperial College London, graduating with B.Sc. degree with honours.
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In New York, Alvin Sanders is a small-time thief who's just been hauled in for stealing a bunch of prawns (shrimp) from a local restaurant. He ends up in a cell with John Jaster, one half of a high-tech criminal team that's just stolen $42,000,000 worth of gold from the Federal Reserve. Realizing that he could die at any moment from his worsening heart condition, Jaster tells Alvin to relay a cryptic message to his wife about the whereabouts of the hidden gold. Alvin doesn't know exactly what the message means, and Edgar Clenteen, the U.S. Treasury investigator working the case, hopes it will lead to the gold or Jaster's partner Bristol, but it does neither. Eighteen months later, Jaster is dead, and both Clenteen and Bristol are still looking for that gold. Clenteen decides to secretly plant a tracking device in Alvin's jaw, release him from prison, and then let the word out that he knows where the gold is hidden. Knowing that Bristol is probably watching their every move, Clenteen hopes Alvin will act as the bait that'll lure Bristol in. To the dismay of Clenteen and his colleagues, agents Wooly, Blum, Boyle, and Walsh, who are tracking Alvin's every word and move, Alvin immediately gets into trouble, although he decides to go straight once he learns that while he was in prison, his girlfriend Lisa Hill gave birth to their son. Even so, run-ins with his criminal brother, Stevie Sanders and Stevie's two partners, Ramundo and Julio, puts Alvin in danger of being locked up again, which threatens to mess up Clenteen's plan. What will happen when Alvin realizes that he's being used as bait to nail Bristol?
Keywords: animated-title-sequence, audio-surveillance, bare-chested-male-bondage, betrayal, bomb, booby-trap, boxing, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, brooklyn-bridge, brother-brother-relationship
Alvin Sanders is going to help the Feds catch a killer. He just doesn't know it yet.
Julio: [Slamming Alvin against Ramundo's car] Your brother fucked us!::Ramundo: What the fuck are you doing? This is my fucking car man! This is my baby.::Julio: Sorry. [Slamming Alvin against the wall] Your brother fucked us!::Ramundo: So, Stevie's fucking my girl right?::Alvin: Well I think that's a point you're going to have to take with Stevie.::Julio: Well maybe Stevie isn't around to make a...point with anyone.::Ramundo: What the fuck are you saying?::Julio: I'm saying that Stevie didn't show.::Ramundo: Well just say it! Stop being so fucking complex!::Julio: I'm not complex, you're complex!::Alvin: Listen guys, do I have to be around for this?::Julio, Ramundo: Shut up!
[Bristol is nearly hit by a truck]::Trucker: You fucking nuts?::Bristol: No.::[shoots the trucker]::Bristol: I'm fine. Thanks for your concern.
[first lines]::Supervisor: Gentlemen, we owe a quarterly. Vault 23, encryption download.::Guard: Loaded.::Supervisor: Level five. Sonic, please.::Guard: Stable.::Supervisor: Motion?::Guard: Stable.::Supervisor: Status check, please.::Guard: All secure.::Supervisor: Excellent. Carry on, gentlemen.
Agent Wooly: We checked them all. We checked the monkey house, the reptile house, the giraffe house. We even checked the outhouse.
Edgar Clenteen: Citadel 4 is the same system we use to safeguard our nuclear missile launch facilities. This guy took it apart like he was hot-wiring a Toyota.
Senator: Mr. Clenteen, exactly how many laws are we breaking here?::Edgar Clenteen: You don't want to know.
Edgar Clenteen: A wolf will starve itself to death rather than make a mistake. You have to lay down a scent that smells real from far away. And the bait has to be fresh and untouched by human hands. Make no mistake about it, we are hunting a wolf.
Edgar Clenteen: When he's served his purpose, when he draws our man out of the shadows, well, you know what happens to bait...
Stevie Sanders: Alvin, you're an ex-con, man. You just got out the penitentiary. You got 26 dollars in your pocket, 25 of it is mine!
Alvin: So I'm bouncing from toy to toy like I'm some sort of drunk dude. Mom's smiling. My father's smiling. It's all good, right? Then around 8:30, cops show up. Take the toys, take my father. But for about two and a half hours I had a very, very happy childhood.
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Of Kith and Kin: The Trials and Triumphs of African American family life focuses on Paris, whose stories help students understand the family life of African American slaves during the eighteenth century. We watch a group of slave children learn the songs and rhythms of Africa that relate to the work of the plantation. We are guests at a traditional jumpin' the broom wedding ceremony and learn the sense of hope and fear that accompanies these unofficial marriages. Of Kith and Kin approaches slavery from the slaves' perspective and illustrates the role individuals and families played in a society that recognized the rights of neither.
Keywords: african, african-american, colonial-america, electronics, family-relationships, field, game, independent-film, slave, slavery
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Dr Sloan suspects that his flame of long ago, famous heart surgeon Dr Rachel Walters, has murdered US Senator Cabot on the occasion of a guest operation at the community hospital. After a long investigation, Sloan and fellow detectives Dr Bentley and Dr Parker discover her motive: Years ago, Cabot had caused a hit-and-run accident that put her daughter into coma. But how did Dr Walters manage to pass the deadly bacteria on to the senator in front of TV cameras?
Keywords: bacteria, sequel
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This movie is based only on the testimony of Harold Kauffman. Who was known around New York as a small time thief, and Rat! Most of the facts were white washed to make Harold look good. When in fact he turned states evidence after getting caught driving drunk and the FBI threaten to send him back to jail! He worked for the king of the garbage industry "Chuck Macaluso" in New Jersey. He has been part of the witness protection program for over 16 years.
Keywords: based-on-true-story
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After a long journey, Philip arrives at the Usher mansion seeking his loved one, Madeline. Upon arriving, however, he discovers that Madeline and her brother Roderick Usher have been afflicted with a mysterious malady: Roderick's senses have become painfully acute, while Madeline has become catatonic. That evening, Roderick tells his guest of an old Usher family curse: any time there has been more than one Usher child, all of the siblings have gone insane and died horrible deaths. As the days wear on, the effects of the curse reach their terrifying climax.
Keywords: 19th-century, accidental-death, b-movie, based-on-story, blood, brother-sister-relationship, buried-alive, butler, catalepsy, catatonia
Edgar Allan Poe's overwhelming tale of EVIL & TORMENT
I heard her first feeble movements in the coffin... we had put her living in the tomb!
The House of Usher is no more - and the place whereon it stood is as if - it had never been.
He buried her alive... to save his soul!
Edgar Allan Poe's demonic tale of The Ungodly... The Evil House of Usher
Roderick Usher: I suggest you leave, Mr. Winthrop. No? Then perish with us.
Philip Winthrop: You have murdered your sister, Mr. Usher, and I intend to see that you hang for it.::Roderick Usher: Arrange it quickly then. The old house crumbles.
Roderick Usher: See to the crypt, will you?
Roderick Usher: Did you know that I could hear the scratching of her fingernails on the casket lid?
Roderick Usher: [shouting] Be done.::Philip Winthrop: What?::Roderick Usher: I think I rave.::Philip Winthrop: You said be done.
Philip Winthrop: [as the house starts to rumble] Don't you think that crack in the wall should be repaired?::Roderick Usher: For future generations of Ushers?::Philip Winthrop: For Madeline's safety.::Philip Winthrop: While I was riding here I noticed a singular lack of vegetation, is there something wrong with the soil?::Roderick Usher: The soil?::Madeline Usher: Roderick please!::Roderick Usher: [looking at Madeline] As you wish.
Roderick Usher: Madeline and I are like figures of fine glass. The slightest touch and we may shatter. Both of us suffer from a morbid acuteness of the senses. Mine is the worst for having existed the longer, but both of us are afflicted with it. Any sort of food more exotic then the most pallid mash is unendurable to my taste buds. Any sort of garment other then the softest, is agony to my flesh. My eyes are tormented by all but the faintest illumination. Odors assail me constantly, and as I've said, sounds of any degree whatsoever inspire me with terror.
Philip Winthrop: How long have you been with the Ushers?::Bristol: Sixty years, sir.::Philip Winthrop: Sixty years?::Bristol: Since I was a boy.::Philip Winthrop: Why, then this house is just as much yours as it is Mr. Usher's.::Bristol: And Miss Madeline, sir.
Philip Winthrop: [as the house starts to rumble] How long has that been going on?::Bristol: So long I'm hardly aware of it anymore. It's just the settling of the house.::Philip Winthrop: That settling could cause this entire structure to collapse. That doesn't worry you?::Bristol: Oh no, sir. If the house dies, I shall die with it.
Philip Winthrop: Is there no end to your horrors?::Roderick Usher: No. None whatever.