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A fern is any one of a group of about 12,000 species of plants belonging to the botanical group known as Pteridophyta. Unlike mosses, they have xylem and phloem (making them vascular plants). They have stems, leaves, and roots like other vascular plants. Ferns reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers.
By far the largest group of ferns are the leptosporangiate ferns, but ferns as defined here (also called monilophytes) include horsetails, whisk ferns, marattioid ferns, and ophioglossoid ferns. The term pteridophyte also refers to ferns and a few other seedless vascular plants (see classification section below).
Ferns first appear in the fossil record 360 million years ago in the Carboniferous but many of the current families and species did not appear until roughly 145 million years ago in the early Cretaceous (after flowering plants came to dominate many environments).
Ferns are not of major economic importance, but some are grown or gathered for food, as ornamental plants, for remediating contaminated soils, and have been the subject of research for their ability to remove some chemical pollutants from the air. Some are significant weeds. They also play a role in mythology, medicine, and art.
Barack Hussein Obama II (i/bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. In January 2005, Obama was sworn in as a U.S. Senator in the state of Illinois. He would hold this office until November 2008, when he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.
Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. He served three terms representing the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004.
Following an unsuccessful bid against the Democratic incumbent for a seat in the United States House of Representatives in 2000, Obama ran for the United States Senate in 2004. Several events brought him to national attention during the campaign, including his victory in the March 2004 Illinois Democratic primary for the Senate election and his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He won election to the U.S. Senate in Illinois in November 2004. His presidential campaign began in February 2007, and after a close campaign in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries against Hillary Rodham Clinton, he won his party's nomination. In the 2008 presidential election, he defeated Republican nominee John McCain, and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009. Nine months later, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. In April 2011, he announced that he would be running for re-election in 2012.
William Bradley "Brad" Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor and film producer. Pitt has received four Academy Award nominations and five Golden Globe Award nominations, winning one Golden Globe. He has been described as one of the world's most attractive men, a label for which he has received substantial media attention.
Pitt first gained recognition as a cowboy hitchhiker in the road movie Thelma & Louise (1991). His first leading roles in big-budget productions came with A River Runs Through It (1992), Interview with the Vampire (1994), and Legends of the Fall (1994). In 1995, he gave critically acclaimed performances in the crime thriller Seven and the science fiction film 12 Monkeys, the latter earning him a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and an Academy Award nomination. Four years later, Pitt starred in the cult hit Fight Club. He then starred in the major international hit Ocean's Eleven (2001) and its sequels, Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (2007). His greatest commercial successes have been Troy (2004) and Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). Pitt received his second and third Academy Award nominations for his leading performances in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and Moneyball (2011). In addition, Pitt owns a production company, Plan B Entertainment, whose productions include The Departed (2006), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and Moneyball, which garnered a Best Picture nomination.
Actors: Bryan Safi (actor), Jack Plotnick (actor), Drew Droege (actor), Brian Gattas (actor), Tom Lenk (actor), Sam Pancake (actor), Jim Hansen (editor), Jim Hansen (actor), Jim Hansen (producer), Jim Hansen (writer), Jim Hansen (director), Jesse James Rice (actor), Tom DeTrinis (actor), Ron Morehouse (actor), Matthew Thompson (actor),
Plot: Paragon School for Girls has been helping gifted young ladies manifest their potential since 1889. Upon her arrival at the school, Violet begins a strange journey into a whole new world. Each girl learns that she has the latent ability to become something quite extra ordinary. It is a place of mysteries, secrets and dangers. And when girls begin disappearing, the students must join together and figure out how to save themselves and discover what Paragon is really all about. The story is told using unconventional methods. Shot all on green screen, the actors are placed inside dollhouses, miniature models and painted backdrops. Everything is false, from the scaled down props to the gender of the actors playing the women and girls.
Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery,Actors: Jennifer Treuting (director), Tristan Griffin (actor), Carlin Adelson (actress), Jeremy Buhler (editor), Laszlo Toth (miscellaneous crew), Laszlo Toth (composer), Siobhan Thompson (actor), David Hill (writer), David Hill (actor), Cameron Fleming (producer), Alene Latimer (actor), Madina Papadopoulos (miscellaneous crew), Jeremy Rayburn (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Horror, Short, Thriller,Actors: Karen Lindholm-Rynkiewicz (writer), Karen Lindholm-Rynkiewicz (producer), Karen Lindholm-Rynkiewicz (director), Karen Lindholm-Rynkiewicz (editor), Kerrie Clark (actress), Vickie Donovan (miscellaneous crew), Jan Mary Nelson (actress), Deborah Clifton (actress), Becky Spice (actress), Robin Pluer (composer), Courtney Marie Jones (actor), Angela Iannone (actor),
Genres: Drama, Family, Short,Actors: Roy Dupuis (actor), Guy Thauvette (actor), Phillip Jarrett (actor), Glenn Berman (editor), Francesca Chamberland (costume designer), Diane Janna (miscellaneous crew), Patrice Robitaille (actor), Dominique Brault (miscellaneous crew), Barbara Shrier (producer), Lise Dagenais (miscellaneous crew), Francis Leclerc (director), Paul Gillot (miscellaneous crew), Guy-Daniel Tremblay (actor), Peter Batakliev (actor), Alexis Bélec (actor),
Genres: Drama, Sport,Actors: Frank Gerrish (actor), Aaron Lee Syrett (miscellaneous crew), Oscar Rowland (actor), Christian Vuissa (writer), Christian Vuissa (director), Christian Vuissa (producer), Robert Conder (miscellaneous crew), Dane Stevens (actor), Jan Broberg (actress), Steve Anderson (actor), Charles Halford (actor), Micaela Nelligan (actress), Wayne Brennan (actor), Benjamin Gourley (miscellaneous crew), Tony Larimer (actor),
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Keywords: baptist, based-on-novel, christianity, feud, latter-day-saints, lds-film, mayberry, mormon, mormonism, religionActors: Macha Méril (actress), Eugeniusz Priwieziencew (actor), Frank Fontaine (actor), Walter Massey (actor), Vania Vilers (actor), Nicole Pelletier (costume designer), Carl Marotte (actor), André Oumansky (actor), André Mélançon (actor), Marc Messier (actor), Macha Grenon (actress), Michel Arcand (editor), Denis Bouchard (actor), Jean-Marie Drot (editor), Aubert Pallascio (actor),
Plot: The year following the Stanley Cup victory, Pierre Lambert is chosen to play in a World Cup Tournament in Europe and Canada. However, he must cope with the breakup of his current girlfriend, then being chased by a crazed and doped photograph, and being harassed by his father-in-law who's the coach of Team Canada, fearing his "depression" may affect the team. He seems to find love with a cop's daughter, however, he must also cope with his sister's Suzy relationship with a french hockey player who has cancer, and befriends a Soviet player who dreams of defecting the USSR, whose lover is a KGB agent... Can he still get out of these situations and help Team Canada win the coveted championship ?
Keywords: actor-shares-first-name-with-character, hockey, second-part, sequel, tv-mini-seriesActors: Richard Driscoll (actor), Owen Teale (actor), Dafydd Hywel (actor), Ieuan Rhys (actor), Gwenyth Petty (actress), Dorien Thomas (actor), John Hefin (director), Keith Williams (producer), Alun ap Brinley (actor), Glyn Baker (actor), Owen Garmon (actor), Guinevere John (actress), Ernest Evans (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Dorothée Berryman (actress), Marc Beaudet (producer), Jacques Godbout (writer), Gilles Renaud (actor), Werner Nold (editor), Jacques Godbout (actor), Julien Poulin (actor), Jacques Godbout (director), François Dompierre (composer), Rita Lafontaine (actress), Denis Drouin (actor), Marc Legault (actor), Serge Thériault (actor), Pierre Gobeil (actor), Jean-Pierre Saulnier (actor),
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Keywords: canadian-gangster, canadian-mafia, canadian-noir, canadian-organized-crime, french-canadian-gangster, french-canadian-mafia, mafia, organized-crimeActors: Erik 'Bullen' Berglund (actor), Axel Düberg (actor), John Elfström (actor), John Elfström (actor), John Elfström (actor), Heinz Hopf (actor), Heinz Hopf (actor), Ingvar Kjellson (actor), Ingvar Kjellson (actor), Curt Masreliez (actor), Curt Masreliez (actor), Barbro Hiort af Ornäs (actress), Mona Malm (actress), Isa Quensel (actress), Ulla Sjöblom (actress),
Genres: Musical,Actors: William Fox (miscellaneous crew), George Fisher (actor), Charles K. French (actor), Charles Gorman (actor), William Russell (actor), Edwin B. Tilton (actor), Mary Thurman (actress), James P. Hogan (director), John Cook (actor), Correan Kirkham (actor), Jack Roseleigh (actor), Joe Lee (actor), Jack Stevens (actor), A. Channing Edington (writer),
Genres: Drama,