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A brand is a "Name, term, design, symbol, or any other feature that identifies one seller's good or service as distinct from those of other sellers."Branding began as a way to tell one person's cattle from another by means of a hot iron stamp. A modern example of a brand is Coca Cola which belongs to the Coca-Cola Company.
Marque or make are often used to denote a brand of motor vehicle. A concept brand is a brand that is associated with an abstract concept, like breast cancer awareness or environmentalism, rather than a specific product, service, or business. A commodity brand is a brand associated with a commodity. Got milk? is an example of a commodity brand.
The word "brand" is derived from the Old Norse brandr meaning "to burn." It refers to the practice of producers burning their mark (or brand) onto their products.
The Italians were among the first to use brands, in the form of watermarks on paper in the 1200s.
Although connected with the history of trademarks and including earlier examples which could be deemed "protobrands" (such as the marketing puns of the "Vesuvinum" wine jars found at Pompeii), brands in the field of mass-marketing originated in the 19th century with the advent of packaged goods. Industrialization moved the production of many household items, such as soap, from local communities to centralized factories. When shipping their items, the factories would literally brand their logo or insignia on the barrels used, extending the meaning of "brand" to that of trademark.
Donald John Trump, Sr. (born June 14, 1946) is an American business magnate, television personality and author. He is the chairman and president of The Trump Organization and the founder of Trump Entertainment Resorts. Trump's extravagant lifestyle, outspoken manner and role on the NBC reality show The Apprentice have made him a well-known celebrity who was No. 17 on the 2011 Forbes Celebrity 100 list. He is well-known as a real-estate developer who amassed vast hotel, casino, and other real-estate properties, in the New York City area and around the world.
Trump is the son of Fred Trump, a wealthy New York City real-estate developer. He worked for his father's firm, Elizabeth Trump & Son, while attending the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1968 officially joined the company. He was given control of the company in 1971 and renamed it The Trump Organization.
In 2010, Trump expressed an interest in becoming a candidate for President of the United States in the 2012 election. In May 2011, he announced he would not be a candidate, but a few weeks later he said he had not completely ruled out the possibility. In December 2011, Trump was suggested as a possible Vice Presidential selection by Michele Bachmann. Bachmann has since suspended her presidential campaign.
Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), better known by her stage name Alicia Keys, is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. Keys was raised by a single mother in the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan in New York City. At age seven, Keys began playing the piano. She attended Professional Performing Arts School and graduated at 16 as valedictorian. Keys released her debut album with J Records, having had previous record deals first with Columbia and then Arista Records.
Keys' debut album, Songs in A Minor, was a commercial success, selling over 12 million copies worldwide. She became the best-selling new artist and best-selling R&B artist of 2001. The album earned Keys five Grammy Awards in 2002, including Best New Artist and Song of the Year for "Fallin'". Her second studio album, The Diary of Alicia Keys, was released in 2003 and was also another success worldwide, selling eight million copies. The album garnered her an additional four Grammy Awards in 2005. Later that year, she released her first live album, Unplugged, which debuted at number one in the United States. She became the first female to have an MTV Unplugged album to debut at number one and the highest since Nirvana in 1994.
Actors: Debbie Rochon (actress), Sean-Michael Argo (actor), Sean-Michael Argo (actor), Sean-Michael Argo (director), Sean-Michael Argo (producer), Sean-Michael Argo (writer), Robert Bozek (actor), Raw Leiba (actor), Jennifer Page (actress), Jon Sewell (actor), Fiona Horne (actress), Eric Pope (actor), William Schweikert (producer), Shane Ralbovsky (actor), Ian Argo (producer),
Plot: The fallen angel Azazel(Raw Leiba) has come to Earth at the behest of the Winter Faerie Queen(Debbie Rochon), and formed an alliance with the Greek god Hermes(Christopher Jason Bolton). Together they seek to resurrect Azazel's demigod children, the Nephilim, whose existence would destroy the world. A second fallen angel, Shemihazya(Sean-Michael Argo), has been summoned by the Summer Faerie Queen(Fiona Horne) to oppose the raising of the Nephilim. He aligns himself with the Greek goddess Hecate(Bekah Kelso), forcing her to help him in his quest by possessing the body of her lover. The Gods and Angels battle across modern city streets and the pristine forests of the spirit world, their struggle set against the backdrop of a civil war between the Queens of Faerie, as the forces of Winter seek to dominate the people of Summer.
Keywords: azazel, faerie, faerie-tale, fairy, fairy-tale, fallen-angel, greek, myth, occult, supernaturalActors: Lothar Scherpe (composer), Josef Bierbichler (actor), Karlheinz Hackl (actor), Erich Lackner (producer), Thomas Roth (director), Thomas Roth (writer), Christine Ruppert (producer), Denis Moschitto (actor), Susi Stach (miscellaneous crew), Heribert Sasse (actor), Erika Navas (costume designer), Dana Cebulla (actress), Eva Cifrain (miscellaneous crew), Manuel Rubey (actor), Karl Künstler (actor),
Plot: Brand, an author, who falls in love with Angela, his terminally ill wife's nurse and blunders into a dangerous spiral of passion and jealousy. A vindictive husband, an insistent chief inspector, a farsighted priest and a proud wife entrap Brand in a maelstrom of persecution, destruction and obliteration which can only end in life or death. It's a quest for redemption, the force which drives us all.
Genres: Thriller,Actors: Frank Marshall (producer), Steven Spielberg (producer), Kathleen Kennedy (producer), Martha Plimpton (actress), Richard Donner (producer), Harvey Bernhard (producer), Sean Astin (actor), Lupe Ontiveros (actress), Robert Davi (actor), Richard Donner (actor), Corey Feldman (actor), Josh Brolin (actor), Joe Pantoliano (actor), Steven Spielberg (writer), Chris Columbus (writer),
Plot: Mikey Walsh and Brandon Walsh are brothers whose family is preparing to move because developers want to build a golf course in the place of their neighborhood -- unless enough money is raised to stop the construction of the golf course, and that's quite doubtful. But when Mikey stumbles upon a treasure map of the famed "One-Eyed" Willy's hidden fortune, Mikey, Brandon, and their friends Lawrence "Chunk" Cohen, Clark "Mouth" Devereaux, Andrea "Andy" Carmichael, Stefanie "Stef" Steinbrenner, and Richard "Data" Wang, calling themselves The Goonies, set out on a quest to find the treasure in hopes of saving their neighborhood. The treasure is in a cavern, but the entrance to the cavern is under the house of evil thief Mama Fratelli and her sons Jake Fratelli, Francis Fratelli, and the severely disfigured Lotney "Sloth" Fratelli. Sloth befriends the Goonies and decides to help them.
Keywords: 1980s, adventurer, affection, against-the-odds, arrest, asthma, attic, baby-ruth, bad-mother, beachActors: Greydon Clark (miscellaneous crew), Joyce King (miscellaneous crew), Simon Prescott (actor), Al Adamson (producer), Jack Starrett (actor), Al Adamson (director), Gary Kent (actor), Broderick Crawford (actor), Scott Brady (actor), Kent Taylor (actor), Greydon Clark (actor), Adolf Hitler (actor), John Carradine (actor), Samuel M. Sherman (miscellaneous crew), Leslie McRay (actress),
Plot: A group of sadistic outlaw bikers rumble into Las Vegas for kicks and to raise hell and chaos. But they soon get more then they bargained for when they run up against a neo-Nazi group, as well as casino Mafia wise-guys, and a wannabe vampire.
Keywords: agent, biker, counterfeit, desert, evil-man, fbi, female-nudity, helicopter, independent-film, moneyActors: C. Davis Smith (producer), C. Davis Smith (editor), James E. Myers (actor), James E. Myers (producer), Tony Orlando (writer), Tony Orlando (director), Ron Collier (writer), Norman Brooks (actor), Norman 'Red' Benson (actor), Norman 'Red' Benson (producer), Iris Hunter (miscellaneous crew), Dick Lee (actor), Bob London (actor), Iris Hunter (actress), Monte Barry (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Van Johnson (actor), Margaret Lindsay (actress), Robert Adler (actor), Van Johnson (actor), Jorge Treviño (actor), Walter Woolf King (actor), Carleton Young (actor), Bruce Bennett (actor), John Doucette (actor), Jack Carson (actor), Harry Morgan (actor), Jim Davis (actor), Joseph Cotten (actor), Georges Simenon (writer), Ruth Roman (actress),
Plot: Patrick Martin (Joseph Cotten), known as P.M., is a wealthy attorney and rancher big-man-in-town in the border town of Nogales, Arizona. He returns home to find his brother Donald (Van Johnson)hiding in his garage. A former drunkard, Donald had been sent to the penitentiary five years previously for killing a man in a barroom brawl. It was in self-defense but P.M. hadn't defended his brother and he was convicted. Donald has escaped and wants his brother to help him across the Santa Cruz River into the Mexico-side Nogales, where his wife (Shirley Patterson as Shawn Smith)and children (Kim Charney and Sandy Deschler) are in dire straits. The straits get even dier when P.M. tells him the river is flooded and it will be days before anyone can cross. And P.M. is all a'twitter because his wife Nora (Ruth Roman), whom he married after Donald had gone to prison, doesn't know about his jail-bird brother. He introduces Donald to Nora and the rest of his Cadillac Cowboy and ranch society friends as an old friend, and is kept busy trying to make sure old Donald doesn't find anything harder that ginger ale to drink. Donald gets a telephone call telling him that his family has gone from dire straits to destitution and when P.M. won't get some money to them through his contacts in the Mexico side of Nogales, Donald knocks him down and grabs a couple of bottles of whiskey and dashes out of the house into the rain.
Keywords: alcoholic, alcoholism, assumed-identity, based-on-novel, border-crossing, brother-vs-brother, delirium-tremens, deputy, drunk-fight, escaped-convictActors: Peter Lorre (actor), Sam Ash (actor), Don Beddoe (actor), Raymond Bailey (actor), Trevor Bardette (actor), Stanley Brown (actor), Donald Douglas (actor), Richard Fiske (actor), William Gould (actor), Bruce Bennett (actor), Chuck Hamilton (actor), Howard C. Hickman (actor), Al Hill (actor), Eddie Laughton (actor), Kenneth MacDonald (actor),
Plot: Sadistic Stephen Danel owns a penal island, and when he is not humiliating and mistreating his wife, he is torturing his convict prisoners and using them for slave labor. Government agent Mark Sheldon is sent to infiltrate the island and bring Danel to justice.
Keywords: airplane, arms-tied-overhead, bare-chested-male, bare-chested-male-bondage, chains, cigarette-smoking, courtroom, diamond, double-breasted-suit, dysfunctional-marriageActors: Max Ophüls (director), Max Ophüls (writer), Walter Schlee (writer), Walter Schlee (writer), Matthieu van Eysden (actor), Herman Bouber (actor), Christine van Meeteren (actress), Christine van Meeteren (writer), Max Tak (composer), Lau Ezerman (actor), Gerard Doting (actor), Gerard Hartkamp (actor), Gérard Bensdorp (editor), Corry Vonk (actress), Bert van Dongen (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Drama,Actors: Adolph Zukor (miscellaneous crew), Noah Beery (actor), Jack Holt (actor), George Nichols (actor), Eugene Pallette (actor), Bob Perry (actor), William Scott (actor), Alma Bennett (actress), Billie Dove (actress), Zane Grey (writer), Lucien Hubbard (writer), George C. Hull (writer), William K. Howard (director), Jesse L. Lasky (miscellaneous crew), Mark Hamilton (actor),
Genres: Drama, Western,Actors: Frank Powell (writer), Frank Powell (director), Clifford Bruce (actor), Alfred Hickman (actor), Sam J. Ryan (actor), Victor Benoit (actor), Harriet Ford (writer), Joseph Medill Patterson (writer), Ruth Blair (actress), Stacey Van Petten Jr. (actress), Aline Bartlett (actress),
Genres: Drama,