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A genius is a person who displays exceptional intellectual ability or originality, typically to a degree that is associated with the achievement of new advances in a domain of knowledge. Despite the presence of scholars in many subjects in history, many geniuses have shown high achievements only in a single subject, unlike the talented people. There is no scientifically precise definition of genius, and the question of whether the notion itself has any real meaning has long been a subject of debate, although psychologists are converging on a definition that emphasizes creativity and eminent achievement.
In ancient Rome, the genius (plural in Latin genii) was the guiding spirit or tutelary deity of a person, family (gens), or place (genius loci). The noun is related to the Latin verb genui, genitus, "to bring into being, create, produce". Because the achievements of exceptional individuals seemed to indicate the presence of a particularly powerful genius, by the time of Augustus the word began to acquire its secondary meaning of "inspiration, talent". The term genius acquired its modern sense in the eighteenth century, and is a conflation of two Latin terms: genius, as above, and ingenium, a related noun referring to our innate dispositions, talents and inborn nature. Beginning to blend the concepts of the divine and the talented, the Encyclopédie article on genius (génie) describes such a person as "he whose soul is more expansive and struck by the feelings of all others; interested by all that is in nature never to receive an idea unless it evokes a feeling; everything excites him and on which nothing is lost."
Nicole Mary Kidman, AC (born 20 June 1967) is an Australian actress and film producer. Kidman's breakthrough roles were in the 1989 feature film thriller Dead Calm and television thriller mini series Bangkok Hilton. Appearing in several films in the early 1990s, she came to worldwide recognition for her performances in the stock-car racing film Days of Thunder (1990), the Irish-immigrant-in-America-experience romance-drama Far and Away (1992), and the superhero film Batman Forever (1995). Other successful films followed in the late 1990s. Her performance in the musical Moulin Rouge! (2001) earned her a second Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and her first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Kidman's performance as Virginia Woolf in the drama film The Hours (2002) received critical acclaim and earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress, the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama and the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла; 10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
Tesla gained experience in telephony and electrical engineering before emigrating to the United States in 1884 to work for Thomas Edison in New York City. He soon struck out on his own with financial backers, setting up laboratories and companies to develop a range of electrical devices. His patented AC induction motor and transformer were licensed by George Westinghouse, who also hired Tesla for a short time as a consultant. His work in the formative years of electric power development was involved in a corporate alternating current/direct current "War of Currents" as well as various patent battles.
Tesla went on to pursue his ideas of wireless lighting and electricity distribution in his high-voltage, high-frequency power experiments in New York and Colorado Springs, and made early (1893) pronouncements on the possibility of wireless communication with his devices. He tried to put these ideas to practical use in an ill-fated attempt at intercontinental wireless transmission, his unfinished Wardenclyffe Tower project. In his lab he also conducted a range of experiments with mechanical oscillators/generators, electrical discharge tubes, and early X-ray imaging. He also built a wireless controlled boat, one of the first ever exhibited.
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park", he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and large-scale teamwork to the process of invention, and because of that, he is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory.
Edison was a prolific inventor, holding 1,093 US patents in his name, as well as many patents in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. More significant than the number of Edison's patents was the widespread impact of his inventions: electric light and power utilities, sound recording, and motion pictures all established major new industries world-wide. Edison's inventions contributed to mass communication and, in particular, telecommunications. These included a stock ticker, a mechanical vote recorder, a battery for an electric car, electrical power, recorded music and motion pictures.
Actors: Sanjay Dutt (actor), Vishal Dadlani (writer), Vishal Dadlani (composer), Shekhar Ravjiani (composer), Mita Vasisht (actress), Victor Banerjee (actor), Amitabh Bachchan (actor), Boman Irani (actor), Ritesh Deshmukh (actor), Geeta Kapoor (miscellaneous crew), Arif Zakaria (actor), Suresh Pai (editor), Sunil Lulla (producer), Joy Sengupta (actor), Sujoy Ghosh (director),
Plot: Based in the municipality of Khwaish, abused by his classmates, Aladin Chatterjee, who was orphaned when his parents, Arun and Riya, died in an accident in Siachen Valley, lived with his paternal grandfather until the later's passing. Now alone, grown up, studying in Khwaish University, and still being abused by fellow-college mates, he finds himself smitten by the lovely US Exchange Student, Jasmine. Unable to express his feelings for her, he rubs a lamp that was gifted to him on his birthday, which summons a genie named Genius. He gets 3 wishes, but wastes 2 of them, but on the 3rd one he insists that Genius assist him to win Jasmine's heart without any magical tricks. Hilarious chaos results when everything seems to fail; while an immortal and deadly entity, Ringmaster, and his hordes, prepares to confront Genius and Aladin so that he can acquire even more magical powers with the help of the lamp on the day of the sighting of a rare comet; and the truth behind the death of Aladin's parents.
Keywords: aladdin, box-office-flop, bully, character-name-in-title, chase, date, death-of-parents, genie, good-versus-evil, loveActors: Ryan Andrews (editor), Ryan Andrews (actor), Ryan Andrews (producer), Ryan Andrews (writer), Ryan Andrews (director), Matt Galuppo (actor), Brian Birmingham (writer), Nick Centera (writer), Trevor Adams (actor), Gabe Milori (actor), Mark Birmingham (actor), George Brooks (actor), Gabe Milori (writer),
Genres: Action, Short,Actors: Sanseverino (actor), Patrick Bagot (writer), Patrick Bagot (director), Étienne Alsama (actor), Erasmo di Fonzo (editor), Mélanie Le Moine (actress),
Genres: Short,Actors: Clyde Lucas (composer), Bob Burns (actor), Dennis Muren (miscellaneous crew), Michael J. Fox (actor), John Massari (composer), George Pal (actor), Rod Taylor (actor), Rod Taylor (actor), Rod Taylor (actor), Joe Dante (miscellaneous crew), Alan Young (actor), Bob Burns (producer), Bob Burns (miscellaneous crew), Whit Bissell (actor), Clyde Lucas (producer),
Plot: In this follow up to the Time Machine, Filby is still the caretaker of his friend George's house ten years following George's trip to the future. Filby is then surprised to see his old friend return to his home to retrieve some books to help in his quest to rebuild humanity. During the stay, Filby implores his good friend to stay and resume his life there. However, George refuses and tells James that he has chosen to remain in the future. Also, it is a sad return for George due to the fact that at the time he returns it is just prior to the beginning of World War I and he does all he can to try to not reveal the tragic future of his good friend.
Genres: Documentary,Actors: Sahara (actress), Eric Edwards (actor), Kevin James (actor), Kimberly Carson (actress), Jerry Butler (actor), Jeannie Pepper (actress), Ami Rogers (actress), J. Daniels (director), Rainey Douglas (actress),
Genres: Adult,Actors: Joseph E. Levine (miscellaneous crew), Christopher Riordan (actor), H.G. Wells (writer), Beau Bridges (actor), Toni Basil (miscellaneous crew), Bert I. Gordon (director), Bert I. Gordon (writer), Rance Howard (actor), Ron Howard (actor), Joe Turkel (actor), Toni Basil (actress), Bert I. Gordon (producer), Tommy Kirk (actor), Alan Caillou (writer), Dorothy Yutzi (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Mike thinks he's hit the jackpot when his girlfriend Nancy's kid brother, who they call Genius, creates a growth compound that results in animals growing to huge proportions. A group of delinquents led by Fred has come to town and when they get their hands the goo, as Genius calls it, their giant size make them unstoppable. While Genius tries to recreate the formula, Mike and other teenagers in town, serve the giants. Genius simply can't reproduce the formula but fortunately comes up with the next best thing.
Keywords: b-movie, band, barbecue, bare-chested-male, based-on-novel, bicycle, boy-genius, breaking-and-entering, breasts-growing, catActors: Don Weis (miscellaneous crew), Beau Bridges (actor), Robert Hyatt (actor), Louis Jourdan (actor), Norman Lloyd (actor), Roy Roberts (actor), Ann Doran (actress), Jean Fenwick (actress), Lilli Palmer (actress), Jane Wyatt (actress), Lewis Milestone (producer), Franz Waxman (composer), Lewis Milestone (director), Robert Parrish (editor), Dana Andrews (actor),
Plot: Perry Ashwell is a self-satisfied child psychologist who takes his colleagues and wife somewhat for granted. So confident is he of his position that he introduces rich attractive painter Octavio Quaglini to his office and home. Quaglini is no respecter of convention, and April Ashwell is extremely attractive.
Keywords: abstract-art, breakfast, charcoal, child-psychologist, cuckoo-clock, dinner, drawing-on-a-wall, lobster, punched-in-the-face, sketch-padActors: Johnny Duncan (actor), Robert Dudley (actor), Abe Dinovitch (actor), Jack Daley (actor), Eric Alden (actor), Elisha Cook Jr. (actor), Eddie Acuff (actor), Hobart Cavanaugh (actor), Charles Arnt (actor), Jack Chefe (actor), Robert Alda (actor), Joseph Crehan (actor), Chester Clute (actor), Monte Blue (actor), Edward Fielding (actor),
Plot: Judy Jones, sings with a band and also works at an aircraft plant. She takes part in a "missing heirs" radio program and is discovered to be an heiress to a fortune. But the will provides that she must be married by a certain time or lose the inheritance. She then has to decide whether rivals-for-her-hand Tommy Coles or Bart Williams, loves her for herself or for her fortune. What's a girl to do?
Keywords: camera-shot-of-feet, character-name-in-title, female-stockinged-feet, inheritance, marriageActors: Chick Chandler (actor), Harold Miller (actor), Jerome Cowan (actor), William B. Davidson (actor), Milton Berle (actor), Dick French (actor), Steven Geray (actor), William Halligan (actor), Dell Henderson (actor), Robert Emmett Keane (actor), Charles Lane (actor), Elisha Cook Jr. (actor), LeRoy Mason (actor), Matt McHugh (actor), Bert Moorhouse (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Konrad Tom (writer), Eugeniusz Bodo (actor), Antoni Fertner (actor), Henryk Szaro (director), Elna Gistedt (actress), Nina Wilinska (actress), Franciszek Radomski (actor), Marian Koc (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Romance,I'll take the blame
If I ever want to
For what my little brain
Has been through
I know to say
Things I never meant to
To seem a little sane
'cause that's what it takes
If I ever could win
If I ever could see
If I just could ever remember
To think about anything.
Darling, ya give me a rope and I'll hang myself
It doesn't take a genius to figure it out
Don't have to be fucking brilliant to see
I'm not as smart as I seem to be
I'm not as bright as I used to be
I'm not as sharp as I think I am.
I'm not as smart as I seem.
I'm not as bright as I seem.
Darling,
Darling
Darling
Darling, you give me a rope I'll hang myself
It doesn't take a genius to figure it out
Don't have to be fucking brilliant to see
I'm not as smart as I seem to be.
I'm not as bright as I used to be.
I'm not as sharp as I think I am.
I'm not as smart as I seem.