A duke (male) or duchess (female) can be either a monarch ruling over a duchy or a member of the nobility, historically of highest rank below the monarch. The title comes from French duc, itself from the Latin dux, 'leader', a term used in republican Rome to refer to a military commander without an official rank (particularly one of Germanic or Celtic origin), and later coming to mean the leading military commander of a province.
In the Middle Ages the title signified first among the Germanic monarchies. Dukes were the rulers of the provinces and the superiors of the counts in the cities and later, in the feudal monarchies, the highest-ranking peers of the king.
During the 19th century many of the smaller German and Italian states were ruled by Dukes or Grand Dukes. But presently, with the exception of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, there are no ruling dukes. Duke remains the highest titular peerage in France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom. The Pope, as a temporal sovereign, has also but rarely granted the title of Duke and Duchess to persons for services to the Holy See.
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and big-band leader. Ellington wrote over 1,000 compositions. In the opinion of Bob Blumenthal of The Boston Globe "In the century since his birth, there has been no greater composer, American or otherwise, than Edward Kennedy Ellington." A major figure in the history of jazz, Ellington's music stretched into various other genres, including blues, gospel, film scores, popular, and classical. His career spanned more than 50 years and included leading his orchestra, composing an inexhaustible songbook, scoring for movies, composing stage musicals, and world tours. Several of his instrumental works were adapted into songs that became standards. Due to his inventive use of the orchestra, or big band, and thanks to his eloquence and extraordinary charisma, he is generally considered to have elevated the perception of jazz to an art form on a par with other traditional genres of music. His reputation increased after his death and the Pulitzer Prize Board bestowed on him a special posthumous honor in 1999.
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Something has gone wrong at a remote scientific research station on Mars. All research has ceased. Communication has failed. And the messages that do get through are less than comforting. It's a level 5 quarantine and the only souls allowed in or out are the Rapid Response Tactical Squad - hardened Marines armed to the teeth with enough firepower to neutralize the enemy...or so they think.
Keywords: 2020s, 2040s, 21st-century, accident, action-hero, alien, alien-invasion, altered-version-of-studio-logo, ambush, anti-hero
No one gets out alive.
Hell Breaks Loose
Sarge: I'm not supposed to die.
Sarge: Semper Fi, Motherfucker! Faithful to the corps John.
Goat: Be sober; be vigilant because your adversary the Devil walketh about seeking whom he may devour.::Corporal Dean Portman: That's real comforting Goat, that ain't freaking me out at all.
Sarge: Are you gonna shoot me?::John Grimm: Yeah, was thinking about it::Sarge: What you got left?::John Grimm: Half a clip. You?::Sarge: [points BFG] I've got one round.
Sarge: [after unlocking Bio-Force Gun vault] Big fucking gun.
Pinky: All right, drop the weapons! I mean it! I am not going to be killed by a madman, drop the weapons!::[something growls]::Pinky: Aw, there's something behind me, isn't there?
Samantha Grimm: So, "Reaper"? As in "Grim"?::John Grimm: They're Marines, Sam, not poets.
Duke: [after meeting Samantha] Please tell me you didn't let a fine piece of ass like that get away from you, Reaper.::John Grimm: She's my sister.::Duke: No shit?::Destroyer: Don't do this again, man.::Duke: Do what?
John Grimm: Like The Kid said, "Go to Hell"!
Sarge: Shoulder your fucking weapon, soldier!
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Helene loves to play poker for big money in men's company. But one day she looses big time against bar manager Antonio. He grants her 24 hours to come up with the 50,000 Francs. She asks all of her friends, but nobody will help her. When she finally steals the money from her brother Stephane, she gets them into serious trouble -- she didn't know where he got it.
Keywords: gambling, title-directed-by-female
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Based on the true story of the student protests at Kent State University in Ohio. This film focuses on the four students who were killed when the National Guard attempted to quell the riots that began on May 4, 1970, after President Nixon announced that American troops would begin bombing the heretofore neutral country of Cambodia.
Keywords: 1970s, anti-war-demonstration, based-on-book, national-guard, nixon, protest, riot, university, vietnam
And the Man Who Owned Her Didn't Even Know She Was a "TWITCH"!
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Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys, horses, or anything else.
Keywords: abbott-and-costello, arizona, bus, car-through-wall, chase, cowboy, cowboy-boots, cowboy-hat, cowboy-shirt, dream-sequence
GAGS! NAGS! SWEETIES AND SWING! (original print ad - all caps)
They'd make a horse LAUGH! (original print ad)
TWO TERRIFIED TENDERFEET...CAUGHT IN A ROUND UP OF RIOTOUS REVELRY AND RHYTHM! (original print ad-all caps)
I am the one who guided you this far
All you know and all you feel
Nobody must know my name
For nobody would understand
And you kill what you fear
And you fear what you don't understand
I call you for I must leave
You're on your own until the end
There was a choice but now it's gone
I said, "You wouldn't understand
Take what's yours and be damned"
There is no one in my life but you
[Incomprehensible]
Through the sun and rain, through the joy and the pain
I know that our love will remain
There is no one in my life but you
[Incomprehensible]
Through the sun and rain, through the joy and the pain
I know that our love will remain
There is no one in my life but you
[Incomprehensible]
Through the sun and rain, through the joy and the pain
I know that our love will remain
Through the sun and rain, through the joy and the pain
I know that our love will remain