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The term cockney has had several distinct geographical, social, and linguistic associations. Originally a pejorative term applied to all city-dwellers, it was eventually restricted to Londoners and particularly to the "Bow-bell Cockneys": those born within earshot of Bow Bells, the bells of St Mary-le-Bow in the Cheapside district of the City of London. More recently, it is variously used to refer to those in London's East End, or to all working-class Londoners generally.
Linguistically, cockney English refers to the accent or dialect of English traditionally spoken by working-class Londoners. In recent years, many aspects of cockney English have become part of general South East English speech, producing a variant known as estuary English.
The earliest recorded use of the term is 1362 in passus VI of William Langland's Piers Plowman, where it is used to mean "a small, misshapen egg", from Middle English coken + ey ("a cock's egg"). Concurrently, the mythical land of luxury Cockaigne (attested from 1305) appeared under a variety of spellings—including Cockayne, Cocknay, and Cockney—and became humorously associated with the English capital London.
Jason Statham (/ˈsteɪθəm/ STAY-thəm; born 26 July 1967) is an English actor. He is known for his roles in the Guy Ritchie crime films Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), Snatch (2000), and Revolver (2005). He has also appeared in films such as the action thriller The Transporter trilogy (2002–08), the heist film The Italian Job (2003), the black comedy/action film Crank (2006), the action film War (2007), the science fiction action thriller Death Race (2008), the crime film The Bank Job (2008), and the action series The Expendables (2010–2014). In 2015, Statham starred in the latest entry in the The Fast and the Furious franchise, Furious 7, and played a comedic role in the Melissa McCarthy film, Spy. He usually performs his own stage combat and stunts, and is noted for being typecast as an antihero.
Statham was born in Shirebrook, Derbyshire, the son of Eileen (née Yates), a dancer, and Barry Statham, a street seller and lounge singer. He moved to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, where he initially chose not to follow his father's career working the local market stalls, instead practicing martial arts. He grew up with football player Vinnie Jones, alongside whom he would later act. Jones introduced him to football, and Statham went on to play for the local grammar school (1978–1983), which he had attended since the age of 11, a passion that he shared with diving. He practiced daily in perfecting his diving techniques, and was a member of Britain's National Diving Squad for twelve years. Statham competed for England at the 1990 Commonwealth Games.
An ice cube is a small, roughly cube-shaped piece of ice (frozen water), conventionally used to cool beverages. Ice cubes are sometimes preferred over crushed ice because they melt more slowly; they are standard in mixed drinks that call for ice, in which case the drink is said to be "on the rocks."
American physician and humanitarian John Gorrie built a refrigerator in 1844 with the purpose of cooling air. His refrigerator produced ice which he hung from the ceiling in a basin. Gorrie can be considered the creator of ice cubes, but his aim was not to cool drinks: he used the ice to lower the ambient room temperature. During his time, a dominant idea was that bad air quality caused disease. Therefore, in order to help treat sickness, he pushed for the draining of swamps and the cooling of sickrooms.
Ice cubes are produced domestically by filling an ice cube tray with water and placing it in a freezer. Many freezers also come equipped with an icemaker, which produces ice cubes automatically and stores them in a bin from which they can be dispensed directly into a glass.
Actors: Billy Bletcher (actor), Herbert Evans (actor), Al Ferguson (actor), Colin Campbell (actor), Paul Cavanagh (actor), Jimmy Aubrey (actor), Wilson Benge (actor), Clyde Cook (actor), Harry Cording (actor), George Coulouris (actor), Howard Davies (actor), Boyd Davis (actor), Barry Bernard (actor), Marcel De la Brosse (actor), Arthur Gould-Porter (actor),
Plot: Mr. Grodman was a respected superintendent at Scotland Yard until a mistake in an investigation caused the execution of an innocent man. He takes the blame and is dismissed, replaced by the obnoxious, gloating Buckley. Feeling vengeful, Grodman would like nothing more than to see Buckley look foolish on the job. His friend Victor Emmric, an artist with macabre tastes, wouldn't mind either and soon a mysterious murder occurs that may provide them with the chance.
Keywords: 1890s, 19th-century, artist, based-on-novel, bracelet, burglar, cat, dance-hall-singer, execution, exhumationActors: David Clyde (actor), Richard Cramer (actor), Eddie Albert (actor), Paul Cavanagh (actor), Fred Cavens (actor), Edgar Barrier (actor), Lee Bennett (actor), Barry Bernard (actor), Rudolph Anders (actor), John Bleifer (actor), Harry Allen (actor), Nigel Bruce (actor), Paul Bryar (actor), John Burton (actor), Richard Crane (actor),
Genres: Drama, War,Actors: Holmes Herbert (actor), Forrester Harvey (actor), Billy Bevan (actor), Reginald Barlow (actor), Sidney Bracey (actor), Jimmy Aubrey (actor), Melville Cooper (actor), Frank Dawson (actor), Eugene Borden (actor), Gilbert Emery (actor), Herbert Evans (actor), Edward Fielding (actor), Leo G. Carroll (actor), Edmund Gwenn (actor), Leyland Hodgson (actor),
Genres: Crime, Drama,Actors: James Conaty (actor), Lowden Adams (actor), David Clyde (actor), Edward Arnold (actor), Jimmy Aubrey (actor), Frank Baker (actor), George Anderson (actor), Harry Allen (actor), Billy Bevan (actor), Ted Billings (actor), Barlowe Borland (actor), Matthew Boulton (actor), John Burton (actor), E.E. Clive (actor), Alec Craig (actor),
Plot: Silky has always moved booze. In prohibition, he smuggled it from Canada, but now that it is legal, he produces his own brand. Seven years before, he sent Doc to prison because Doc was an honest man. Now that he is getting out, Silky wants an honest man as his general manager. When an English solicitor arrives to show that Silky is the new Earl of Gorley, Doc sees his chance to get Silky out of the way. But Silky takes Doc with him to England to see about selling his holdings and taking the money. While Doc knows that none of the property can be sold, he does not tell Silky. While Silky is shown all his duties and responsibilities, Doc is busy bankrupting his business in Chicago.
Keywords: based-on-book, chicago-illinois, distiller, england, frame-up, gangster, murder, nobility, parliament, revengeActors: Jimmy Aubrey (actor), Richard Alexander (actor), Walter Baldwin (actor), Hank Bell (actor), Arthur Aylesworth (actor), Ward Bond (actor), Ed Brady (actor), Harlan Briggs (actor), John Butler (actor), John Carradine (actor), Lon Chaney Jr. (actor), John Bleifer (actor), Heinie Conklin (actor), Tex Cooper (actor), Richard Cramer (actor),
Plot: Early low budget version of the famous Gunfight at OK Corral with Scott as Wyatt Earp and Romero as Doc Holiday. Remade by John Ford as "My Darling Clementine" in 1946 and by John Sturges as "Gunfight at OK Corral" in 1957
Keywords: alcoholic, ambush, bar-shootout, bartender, based-on-novel, beating, boot-hill, buntline-special, business-competition, card-cheatActors: Charles Irwin (actor), Leyland Hodgson (actor), Frank Baker (actor), Boyd Irwin (actor), William Austin (actor), Harry Cording (actor), Ted Billings (actor), Frank Dawson (actor), Nigel Bruce (actor), Arthur Hohl (actor), Gordon Hart (actor), E.E. Clive (actor), Holmes Herbert (actor), Keith Hitchcock (actor), Leonard Mudie (actor),
Plot: Professor Moriarity has a scheme for stealing the crown jewels from the Tower of London. To get Holmes involved, he persuades a gaucho flute player to murder a girl.
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Plot: Railroad owner Jim Knox uses everything to get the land he needs for his new railroad cheaply. Everybody hopes, that Steve Logan ends his regime, but he allies with Jim Knox. Nobody knows, that he's actually a government agent. But when Jim finds out, he tries to kill Steve.
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Genres: Drama,I saw you in my nightmare, glowing in the dark
Oh baby, baby tiger, I need you back
To hide the nights out of my sight
And when you reached the big tree, your belly reached mine
You tied me up with your feet and with your mouth
You made me come a thousand times (x 2)
And my heart might not be shaped like yours
But I swear it is big enough to be your home
I'm the milk in your cereal bowl
Oh baby, baby tiger, I tame you with my breast
I rub you in the shower, I'll do my best
And I know you're wild but we've got time
And I give you while the best I'll find
And my heart might not be shaped like yours
But I swear it is big enough to be your home