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Academia is the community of students and scholars engaged in higher education and research.
The word comes from the akademeia in ancient Greece, which derives from the Athenian hero, Akademos. Outside the city walls of Athens, the gymnasium was made famous by Plato as a center of learning. The sacred space, dedicated to the goddess of wisdom, Athena, had formerly been an olive grove, hence the expression "the groves of Academe."
In these gardens, the philosopher Plato conversed with followers. Plato developed his sessions into a method of teaching philosophy and in 387 BCE, established what is known today as the Old Academy.
By extension Academia has come to mean the cultural accumulation of knowledge, its development and transmission across generations and its practitioners and transmitters. In the 17th century, British and French scholars used the term to describe types of institutions of higher learning.
In ancient Greece, after the establishment of the original Academy, Plato's colleagues and pupils developed spin-offs of his method. Arcesilaus, a Greek student of Plato established the Middle Academy. Carneades, another student, established the New Academy. In 335 BC, Aristotle refined the method with his own theories and established the Lyceum in another gymnasium.
Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter and occasional actress. Raised in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, Swift moved to Nashville, Tennessee at the age of fourteen to pursue a career in country music. She signed to the independent label Big Machine Records and became the youngest songwriter ever hired by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house. The release of Swift's self-titled debut album in 2006 established her as a country music star. "Our Song", her third single, made her the youngest sole writer and singer of a number one song on the country chart. She received a Best New Artist nomination at the 50th Grammy Awards.
Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in late 2008. Buoyed by the chart success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", Fearless attracted a crossover audience and became the top-selling album of 2009. The record won four Grammy Awards, with Swift becoming the youngest ever Album of the Year winner. Fearless also received Album of the Year plaudits at the American Music Awards, Academy of Country Music Awards and Country Music Association Awards, making it the most awarded album in country music history. In 2010, Swift released her third album, Speak Now, which sold over one million copies in its first week. She then embarked on the 111-date Speak Now World Tour, which was attended by over 1.6 million fans and has become one of the highest-grossing concert tours of all time. The album's third single, "Mean", won two Grammy Awards for Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance. Swift is currently recording her fourth studio album, due for release in the fall of 2012.
Actors: Amy Hill (actress), Willam Belli (actor), Esteban Cueto (actor), Randy Crowder (actor), Reena Dutt (actress), Kit Williamson (actor), Jason Sweat (actor), George Ketsios (actor), Skyler Vallo (actress), Mando Alvarado (actor), Gregory Bonsignore (writer), Tara Tomicevic (actress), Cherise Boothe (actress), Tammie Smalls (actress), Shawn Parikh (actor),
Plot: In 1985, the Los Angeles Police Department experimented with a secret Time Travel Division. Catapulting four of L.A.'s Finest 25 years into the future... that future is NOW. Into today's tired world of lab work, warrants, and white-gloved crime scene investigations, bust an elite, twenty-something, mixed-race team of police who only know to kick down doors and ask questions later. Our band of cops - RUSTY (the Hearthrob), WHEELS (the Brains), BRONX (the Muscle), TORI (Disguises/Accents), BOBBY (the Rookie) and THE CHIEF - are assigned to solve the cases only they can. In season one, the Squad is hot on the trail of RICKMAN (Parvesh Cheena), as he tries to run a new lethal designer drug through Dukakis High. And it turns out he has ties to other things... big things.
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Danny Mooney (actor), Jacob Mendel (director), Jacob Mendel (writer), Jacob Mendel (editor), Joshua Bayer (producer), Joshua Amir (producer), Paolo Carone (miscellaneous crew), Dane Reynolds (miscellaneous crew), Noah Stahl (producer), Theo Schear (editor), Josh Berkowitz (actor), Edmund Zagorin (producer), Josh Bayer (miscellaneous crew), David Walker (writer), David Walker (writer),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Chadwick Boseman (editor), Chadwick Boseman (producer), Chadwick Boseman (writer), Chadwick Boseman (director), Stephen Henderson (actor), Logan Coles (producer), Kamilah Forbes (actress), Lloyd Porter (actor), Billy Eugene Jones (actor), Corey Davis (actor),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: John Jopson (writer), Igor Yasulovich (actor), Boris Shcherbakov (actor), John Jopson (writer), Viktor Stepanov (actor), Evgeniy Sidikhin (actor), Aleksandr Dyachenko (actor), Fyodor Popov (producer), Aleksandra Nazarova (actress), Tatyana Meshcherkina (actress), Ivan Agapov (actor), Josh Holland (actor), Gleb Plaksin (actor), Aleksandr Pashkovskiy (actor), Sergey Chekryzhov (composer),
Genres: Action, Adventure,Actors: Jerry Goldsmith (composer), Scott Rudin (producer), Frank Whaley (actor), Alice Drummond (actress), Meg Ryan (actress), Ruth Myers (costume designer), Daniel von Bargen (actor), Stephen Fry (actor), Greg Germann (actor), Walter Matthau (actor), Tim Robbins (actor), Tony Shalhoub (actor), Charles Durning (actor), Beau Flynn (miscellaneous crew), Mary Bailey (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Edward Walters, an auto mechanic, falls for the intelligent and beautiful Catherine Boyd. It is love at first sight. There is however a problem, she's engaged to jerk James Moreland. Fortunately, Catherine's uncle likes Ed, and with his friends they scheme to make Catherine fall for Ed. The comedy in this movie stems from the fact that Catherine's uncle is none other than Albert Einstein, who's portrayed as a fun loving genius, as are his mischievous colleagues, Nathan, Kurt and Boris.
Keywords: acronym-in-title, auto-repair, babe-scientist, badminton, boat, boat-ride, car, chalkboard, cheating, cinemaActors: Jerry Goldsmith (composer), Scott Rudin (producer), Frank Whaley (actor), Alice Drummond (actress), Meg Ryan (actress), Ruth Myers (costume designer), Daniel von Bargen (actor), Stephen Fry (actor), Greg Germann (actor), Walter Matthau (actor), Tim Robbins (actor), Tony Shalhoub (actor), Charles Durning (actor), Beau Flynn (miscellaneous crew), Mary Bailey (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Edward Walters, an auto mechanic, falls for the intelligent and beautiful Catherine Boyd. It is love at first sight. There is however a problem, she's engaged to jerk James Moreland. Fortunately, Catherine's uncle likes Ed, and with his friends they scheme to make Catherine fall for Ed. The comedy in this movie stems from the fact that Catherine's uncle is none other than Albert Einstein, who's portrayed as a fun loving genius, as are his mischievous colleagues, Nathan, Kurt and Boris.
Keywords: acronym-in-title, auto-repair, babe-scientist, badminton, boat, boat-ride, car, chalkboard, cheating, cinemaActors: Jerry Goldsmith (composer), Scott Rudin (producer), Frank Whaley (actor), Alice Drummond (actress), Meg Ryan (actress), Ruth Myers (costume designer), Daniel von Bargen (actor), Stephen Fry (actor), Greg Germann (actor), Walter Matthau (actor), Tim Robbins (actor), Tony Shalhoub (actor), Charles Durning (actor), Beau Flynn (miscellaneous crew), Mary Bailey (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Edward Walters, an auto mechanic, falls for the intelligent and beautiful Catherine Boyd. It is love at first sight. There is however a problem, she's engaged to jerk James Moreland. Fortunately, Catherine's uncle likes Ed, and with his friends they scheme to make Catherine fall for Ed. The comedy in this movie stems from the fact that Catherine's uncle is none other than Albert Einstein, who's portrayed as a fun loving genius, as are his mischievous colleagues, Nathan, Kurt and Boris.
Keywords: acronym-in-title, auto-repair, babe-scientist, badminton, boat, boat-ride, car, chalkboard, cheating, cinemaActors: Nick Rotundo (editor), Paul Greenberg (actor), Dave Thomas (writer), Mark Moore (miscellaneous crew), Jean Stapleton (actress), Dave Thomas (director), Zachary Bennett (actor), Jack Duffy (actor), Roger Dunn (actor), Jayne Eastwood (actress), Bernard Behrens (actor), Noam Jenkins (actor), Geraint Wyn Davies (actor), Dan Duran (actor), Vince Nyuli (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Action, Comedy, Fantasy,Actors: Fred Ludwig (actor), Gojko Mitic (actor), Iurie Darie (actor), Gottfried Kolditz (writer), Ewa Szykulska (actress), Gottfried Kolditz (director), Karl-Ernst Sasse (composer), Alfred Müller (actor), Friedrich Richter (actor), Helmut Schreiber (actor), Günter Schmidt (costume designer), Karin Ugowski (actress), Evgeniy Zharikov (actor), Piotr Pawlowski (actor), Irena Karel (actress),
Genres: Sci-Fi,Actors: Fred Zinnemann (producer), Georges Delerue (composer), Vanessa Redgrave (actress), Orson Welles (actor), Corin Redgrave (actor), Susannah York (actress), John Hurt (actor), Nick Tate (actor), Martin Boddey (actor), Robert Shaw (actor), Colin Blakely (actor), Leo McKern (actor), Nigel Davenport (actor), Ralph Kemplen (editor), Fred Zinnemann (director),
Plot: The story takes place in 16th century England. But men like Sir Thomas More, who love life yet have the moral fiber to lay down their lives for their principles, are found in every century. Concentrating on the last seven years of English chancellor's life, the struggle between More and his King, Henry VIII, hinges on Henry's determination to break with Rome so he can divorce his current wife and wed again, and good Catholic More's inability to go along with such heresy. More resigns as chancellor, hoping to be able to live out his life as a private citizen. But Henry will settle for nothing less than that the much respected More give public approval to his headstrong course.
Keywords: 1520s, 1530s, 16th-century, ambition, anne-boleyn, annulment, archbishop, barge, based-on-play, beefeater