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A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is concerned with events preceding written history, the individual is a historian of prehistory. Although "historian" can be used to describe amateur and professional historians alike, it is reserved more recently for those who have acquired graduate degrees in the discipline. Some historians, though, are recognized by equivalent training and experience in the field. "Historian" became a professional occupation in the late nineteenth century at roughly the same time that physicians also set standards for whom could enter the field.
During the Irving v Penguin Books and Lipstadt trial it became evident that the court need to identify what was an "objective historian" in the same vein as the reasonable person, and reminiscent of the standard traditionally used in English law of "the man on the Clapham omnibus".
Conan Christopher O'Brien (born April 18, 1963) is an American television host, comedian, writer, producer and performer. Since November 2010 he has hosted Conan, a late-night talk show that airs on the American cable television station TBS.
O'Brien was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, and raised in an Irish Catholic family. He served as president of the Harvard Lampoon while attending Harvard University, and was a writer for the sketch comedy series Not Necessarily the News. After writing for several comedy shows in Los Angeles, he joined the writing staff of Saturday Night Live, and later of The Simpsons. He hosted Late Night with Conan O'Brien from 1993 to 2009, followed by seven months hosting The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, the only person to serve as the permanent host for both NBC programs.
O'Brien was born in Brookline, Massachusetts (a suburb of Boston) to Thomas O'Brien, a physician, epidemiologist, and professor of medicine at Harvard, and Ruth O'Brien (née Reardon), an attorney and partner at the Boston firm Ropes & Gray. He is the third of six children. O'Brien's family is Irish Catholic and descends from pre-Civil War era immigrants. In a Late Night episode, O'Brien paid a visit to County Kerry, Ireland, where his ancestors originated.
Satoru Iwata (岩田 聡, Iwata Satoru?, born December 6, 1959) is the fourth president of Nintendo, succeeding the long-standing previous president of the company, Hiroshi Yamauchi in 2002. He was responsible in great part for defining Nintendo's strategy both before and during the release of its Nintendo GameCube video game console in 2001, a vision which helped Nintendo generate a forty-one percent increase in sales at the end of the 2002 fiscal year. Satoru Iwata is married.
Barron's Magazine named Iwata one of the world's top CEOs, due mostly to the Wii and Brain Age sales, as well as Nintendo's increased stock price.
Satoru Iwata was born in Sapporo, Japan. He expressed interest in the creation of video games early on, and began producing electronic games at his home during his high school years. The several simple number games Iwata produced made use of an electronic calculator he shared with his schoolmates. Following high school, Iwata was admitted to the Tokyo Institute of Technology, where he majored in computer science. While attending the school, he did freelance work for HAL Laboratory, Inc., a subsidiary of Nintendo, as a programmer.
Actors: Todd A. Judge (composer), Michael C. Durling (director), William Kaffenberger (actor), Paul D'Elia (actor), Daniel Cross (actor), Andrew Collie (actor), Barry Bedwell (actor), Todd Norris (actor), Ken Johnston (actor), Bill Rose (actor), Phil Schultz (actor), Florin Turner (actor), Gina DeAngelis (writer), Stephen Moore (actor), Joe Ziarko (actor),
Genres: History,Actors: Samuel D. Pollard (director), David H. Kramer (miscellaneous crew), Tyler Hollinger (actor), Malgosia Turzanska (costume designer), Jason Pollard (editor), Kia M. Neal (miscellaneous crew), Tom Martin (actor), Sheila Curran Bernard (writer), Khalil Muhammad (actor), Catherine Allan (producer), Daphne McWilliams (producer), Shane Guilbeau (actor), Terry O'Reilly (miscellaneous crew), Turron Kofi Alleyne (actor), Alesha Renee (actress),
Genres: Documentary, History,Actors: Janus Bang (actor), Janus Bang (producer), Janus Bang (director),
Genres: Documentary,Actors: Antony Hickling (actor), Fedele Papalia (actor), Amanda Lear (actress), Marianne Borgo (actress), Christian Erickson (actor), Anton Yakovlev (actor), Matthew Géczy (actor), Jesse Joe Walsh (actor), Simona Caparrini (actress), Allan Wenger (actor), Alain Azerot (actor), Bruno Henry (actor), Bill Dunn (actor), Jacqueline Corado (actress), George Birt (actor),
Genres: Drama, Thriller,Actors: Jan Toreg (writer), Karsten Alnæs (actor), Karsten Alnæs (writer), Marc Åkerblom (producer),
Genres: Documentary, History,Actors: William G. Wagner (director), Frances Burroughs (miscellaneous crew), William G. Wagner (producer), Frances Burroughs (producer), William G. Wagner (writer), William G. Wagner (editor), William E. White (producer), Jim Survil (miscellaneous crew), Michael J. Lombardi (producer), Richard L. McCluney Jr. (producer), Gene Mitchell (actor), Henry McCoy (miscellaneous crew), Todd A. Judge (composer), Carson Hudson (actor), Michael C. Durling (director),
Plot: In early America plantation owners exploited the labor of enslaved African-Americans to become wealthy in an agricultrual economy. Chained to the Land, an Electronic Field Trip to Colonial Williamsburg, examines the economic, social, and racial realities of plantation life. A master facing a financial crisis is forced to sell some of his slaves in order to save his plantation, lifestyle, and reputation and, in doing so, tears apart the slaves' families.
Genres: Family,Actors: Glenn Kirschbaum (producer), Seth Isler (producer), Robert M. Wise (director), Arthur Drooker (writer), Dan C. Johnson (miscellaneous crew), Cliff Romberger (miscellaneous crew), Thomas A. Desjardin (actor), Thomas A. Desjardin (actor), Thomas Holbrook (actor), Thomas Holbrook (actor), Garry E. Adelman (actor), Garry E. Adelman (actor),
Genres: Documentary, Drama, History, War,Actors: William G. Wagner (editor), Frances Burroughs (producer), Frances Burroughs (miscellaneous crew), William G. Wagner (producer), William G. Wagner (director), William G. Wagner (miscellaneous crew), Michael Durling (miscellaneous crew), William E. White (producer), Jim Survil (miscellaneous crew), Mary Stutz (miscellaneous crew), Mary Stutz (miscellaneous crew), Richard McCluney Jr. (producer), Jodi Norman (miscellaneous crew), Carson Hudson (writer), Carson Hudson (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: William G. Wagner (director), Frances Burroughs (producer), Frances Burroughs (miscellaneous crew), William G. Wagner (producer), William G. Wagner (writer), Michael Durling (miscellaneous crew), William E. White (producer), Jim Survil (miscellaneous crew), Michael J. Lombardi (producer), Mary Stutz (miscellaneous crew), Richard McCluney Jr. (producer), Jodi Norman (miscellaneous crew), Frances Mitchell (actress), Pete Pitard (miscellaneous crew), Danielle Gammon-Smith (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Slaves in eighteenth-century Virginia had no rights. They could not gather in large groups, and they could not travel freely. Slave marriages and families were not legally recognized. Yet slaves built and maintained strong communities capable of passing along information outside the hearing of their white masters. 'Trail of Whispers' is the story of how one African-American community hides a runaway slave using its close networks of 'whispered' news and information.
Genres: ,Actors: Frank Oz (director), Jim Henson (director), Trevor Jones (composer), Billie Whitelaw (actress), Steve Whitmire (actor), Jim Henson (writer), Dave Goelz (actor), Jim Henson (producer), Jerry Nelson (actor), Sean Barrett (actor), Jerry Nelson (actor), Jim Henson (actor), Frank Oz (actor), Ralph Kemplen (editor), Deep Roy (actor),
Plot: Another planet, another time. 1000 years ago the mysterious Dark Crystal was damaged by one of the Urskeks and an age of chaos has began! The evil race of grotesque birdlike lizards the Skeksis, gnomish dragons who rule their fantastic planet with an iron claw. Meanwhile the orphan Jen, raised in solitude by a race of the peace-loving wizards called the Mystics, embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of the Dark Crystal which gives the Skesis their power and restore the balance of the universe.
Keywords: christ-allegory, creature, crystal, cult-film, dark-fantasy, darkness, destiny, directed-by-star, energy-vampire, epic