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Rear Admiral is a naval commissioned officer rank above that of a commodore and captain, and below that of a vice admiral. It is generally regarded as the lowest of the "admiral" ranks, which are also sometimes referred to as "flag officers" or "flag ranks". In many navies it is referred to as a two-star rank.
It originated from the days of naval sailing squadrons and can trace its origins to the Royal Navy. Each naval squadron would be assigned an admiral as its head, who would command from the centre vessel and direct the activities of the squadron. The admiral would in turn be assisted by a vice admiral, who commanded the lead ships which would bear the brunt of a naval battle. In the rear of the naval squadron, a third admiral would command the remaining ships and, as this section of the squadron was considered to be in the least danger, the admiral in command of the rear would typically be the most junior of the squadron admirals. This has survived into the modern age, with the rank of rear admiral the most-junior of the admiralty ranks of many navies.
Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper (December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist and United States Navy officer. A pioneer in the field, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, and developed the first compiler for a computer programming language. She conceptualized the idea of machine-independent programming languages, which led to the development of COBOL, one of the first modern programming languages. She is credited with popularizing the term "debugging" for fixing computer glitches (motivated by an actual moth removed from the computer). Due to the breadth of her accomplishments and her naval rank, she is sometimes referred to as "Amazing Grace." The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Hopper (DDG-70) was named for her, as was the Cray XE6 "Hopper" supercomputer at NERSC.
Hopper was born Grace Brewster Murray in New York City. She was the oldest in a family of three children. She was curious as a child, a life-long trait. At the age of seven she decided to determine how an alarm clock worked. She dismantled seven alarm clocks before her mother realized what she was doing; she was then limited to one clock. For her preparatory school education, she attended the Hartridge School in Plainfield, New Jersey. Rejected for early admission to Vassar College at age 16 (her test scores in Latin were too low), she was admitted the following year. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar in 1928 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics and earned her Master's degree at Yale University in 1930.
Actors: Ivan Okhlobystin (actor), Aleksandr Belyavskiy (actor), Viktor Pavlov (actor), Juozas Budraitis (actor), Ivan Okhlobystin (writer), Aleksey Panin (actor), Vladimir Shainskiy (actor), Natalya Kharakhorina (actress), Stanislav Duzhnikov (actor), Aleksandr Tyutin (actor), Vladimir Smirnov (actor), Pyotr Fyodorov (actor), Sergey Gabrielyan (actor), Sergey Artsibashev (actor), Sergey Galkin (actor),
Plot: The student, Rifle, has managed to seduce his professor's wife, Bomber, an average working guy, has bought a factory and Bullet, the casino lover, is hiding from creditors. They all share a common path and conscription. In the army they teach you that everything must be smart and in order - cockades, straps and all, otherwise you're not fit to call yourself a person, you're a maggot. For a real man, there's no better place than the army.
Keywords: acronym-in-title, army, discipline, military, russian-soldier, uniformActors: Ian McNeice (actor), Tim McInnerny (actor), T.P. McKenna (actor), Alec McCowen (actor), Ian Hart (actor), Roger Lloyd-Pack (actor), Frank Finlay (actor), Jeremy Irons (actor), Nigel Davenport (actor), Michael Gambon (actor), Brian Cox (actor), Stephen Fry (actor), Charles Gray (actor), Bill Nighy (actor), Steve Morphew (actor),
Plot: In the 18th century, the only way to navigate accurately at sea was to follow a coastline all the way, which would not get you from Europe to the West Indies or the Americas. Observing the sun or stars would give you the latitude, but not the longitude unless done in conjunction with a clock that would keep time accurately at sea, and no such clock existed. After one too many maritime disasters due to navigational errors, the British Parliament set up a substantial prize for a way to find the longitude at sea. The film's main story is that of craftsman John Harrison: he built a clock that would do the job, what we would now call a marine chronometer. But the Board of Longitude was biased against this approach and claiming the prize was no simple matter. Told in parallel is the 20th century story of Rupert Gould, for whom the restoration of Harrison's clocks to working order became first a hobby, then an obsession that threatened to wreck his life.
Keywords: 1700s, 1920s, admiration, based-on-book, based-on-true-story, british-navy, bureaucracy, chronometer, clock, father-son-relationshipActors: John Bach (actor), Cameron Daddo (actor), Jason Donovan (actor), John Ewart (actor), John Hargreaves (actor), Bill Kerr (actor), Tim Robertson (actor), David Wenham (actor), Anthony Buckley (producer), Kerry Fetzer (miscellaneous crew), Peter Best (composer), Peter Yeldham (writer), Donald Crombie (director), Paul Rhys (actor), Gus Mercurio (actor),
Genres: Drama, War,Actors: Warren Mitchell (actor), Laurence Naismith (actor), Paul Maxwell (actor), Arthur Lovegrove (actor), Mischa Auer (actor), Kenneth More (actor), Dirk Bogarde (actor), Kenneth Griffith (actor), Graham Crowden (actor), Tutte Lemkow (actor), Sid James (actor), Jeremy Lloyd (actor), Ronald Leigh-Hunt (actor), John Le Mesurier (actor), Lloyd Nolan (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Romance,Actors: Gordon Jackson (actor), Ronald Shiner (actor), Herbert Wilcox (miscellaneous crew), Reginald Beckwith (actor), Harold Kasket (actor), Tom Gill (actor), Herbert Wilcox (producer), Clive Morton (actor), Cecil Parker (actor), Leslie Phillips (actor), Nicholas Phipps (actor), Hattie Jacques (actress), Doreen Dearnaley (miscellaneous crew), Kenneth J. Warren (actor), Walter Hudd (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Clark Howat (actor), Louis Jean Heydt (actor), Chuck Courtney (actor), Morris Ankrum (actor), Sterling Hayden (actor), Nicolas Coster (actor), James Best (actor), Richard Crane (actor), Robert Carson (actor), Frank Ferguson (actor), Willis Bouchey (actor), Art Gilmore (actor), Don Haggerty (actor), Harry Harvey Jr. (actor), William Hudson (actor),
Genres: Drama, War,Actors: Selmer Jackson (actor), Anthony Jochim (actor), John Hamilton (actor), Harry Cheshire (actor), Paul Harvey (actor), Al Hill (actor), John Dehner (actor), Hugh Beaumont (actor), John Doucette (actor), Paul Dubov (actor), Robert Bice (actor), Charles Evans (actor), Glenn Ford (actor), Joseph Crehan (actor), Harry Lauter (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: George Irving (actor), Jerry Jerome (actor), Ted Adams (actor), William Haade (actor), Lionel Barrymore (actor), Richard Crane (actor), Richard Bartell (actor), Boyd Davis (actor), John Dilson (actor), Roy Barcroft (actor), Ralph Dunn (actor), Edward Earle (actor), Byron Foulger (actor), Douglas Fowley (actor), Van Johnson (actor),
Plot: When Roy, a homicidal maniac was put away for murder, Gillespie tried to get him committed to an insane asylum instead. Now the guy's ex-fiancee wants to marry a soldier, and she goes to Gillespie for advice about Roy. Meanwhile, Red's pursued by a pretty socialite, Lee encourages a double-amputee to live, Gillespie and the boys fight to save little Margaret from an epidemic in the children's ward, and Roy breaks out of prison...with a gun...
Keywords: amputee, birthday-party, character-name-in-title, crime-wave, doctor, erysipelas, hospital, prison-break, sequelActors: William Arnold (actor), Herbert Ashley (actor), Harry Bernard (actor), Sammy Blum (actor), Ward Bond (actor), Harvey Clark (actor), Nick Copeland (actor), Richard Dix (actor), Art Dupuis (actor), Eddie Fetherston (actor), Robert Fiske (actor), John Gallaudet (actor), Bud Geary (actor), Eddie Hart (actor), Stanley Andrews (actor),
Genres: Drama, Romance,