Coordinates: 53°48′00″N 1°45′07″W / 53.8000°N 1.75206°W / 53.8000; -1.75206
Bradford i/ˈbrædfərd/ is in the Metropolitan Borough of the City of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England, in the foothills of the Pennines 8.6 miles (14 km) west of Leeds, and 16 miles (26 km) northwest of Wakefield. Bradford became a municipal borough in 1847, and received its charter as a city in 1897. Following local government reform in 1974, city status was bestowed upon the wider metropolitan borough.
Bradford forms part of the West Yorkshire Urban Area conurbation which in 2001 had a population of 1.5 million and is the fourth largest urban area in the United Kingdom with the Bradford subdivision of the aforementioned urban area having a population of 528,155.
Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Bradford rose to prominence during the 19th century as an international centre of textile manufacture, particularly wool. It was a boomtown of the Industrial Revolution, and amongst the earliest industrialised settlements, rapidly becoming the "wool capital of the world". The area's access to a supply of coal, iron ore and soft water facilitated the growth of Bradford's manufacturing base, which, as textile manufacture grew, led to an explosion in population and was a stimulus to civic investment; Bradford has a large amount of listed Victorian architecture including the grand Italianate City Hall.
The Martini is a cocktail made with gin and vermouth, and garnished with an olive or a lemon twist. Over the years, the Martini has become one of the best-known mixed alcoholic beverages. H. L. Mencken called the Martini "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet" and E. B. White called it "the elixir of quietude".
By 1922 the Martini reached its most recognizable form in which London dry gin and dry vermouth are combined at a ratio of 2:1, stirred in a mixing glass with ice cubes, with the optional addition of orange or aromatic bitters, then strained into a chilled cocktail glass. Over time the generally expected garnish became the drinker's choice of a green olive or a twist of lemon peel.
A dry Martini is made with dry, white vermouth. By the Roaring Twenties, it became common to ask for them. Over the course of the century, the amount of vermouth steadily dropped. During the 1930s the ratio was 3:1, and during the 1940s the ratio was 4:1. During the latter part of the 20th century, 6:1, 8:1, 12:1, or even 50:1 or 100:1 Martinis became considered the norm.
Bradford is a city in McKean County, Pennsylvania, United States, close to the border with New York State and approximately 78 miles (126 km) south of Buffalo, New York. Bradford is the principal city in the Bradford, PA Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Settled in 1823, Bradford was chartered as a city in 1879 and emerged as a wild oil boomtown in the Pennsylvania oil rush in the late 19th century. The area's Pennsylvania Grade crude oil has superior qualities and is free of asphaltic constituents, contains only trace amounts of sulfur and nitrogen, and has excellent characteristics for refining into lubricants. The Bradford & Foster Brook Railway was built in 1876 as one of, if not the first, monorails in America, when Bradford was a booming oil town. World-famous Kendall racing oils were produced in Bradford.
The population peaked at 19,306 in 1930, but at the 2010 census had dropped to 8,770. Two adjoining townships, home to approximately 9,000 people, make the population of Greater Bradford about 18,000. Famous Bradfordians include the opera singer Marilyn Horne, the Hall of Fame baseball player Rube Waddell and the five-time All-Star football player Stew Barber. A famous perpetual motion machine hoax was created in Bradford in 1897 by J.M. Aldrich; it was exposed in the July 1, 1899, issue of the Scientific American magazine, leading to a four-month prison sentence in the county jail.
Actors: Gerrad Bohl (actor), Zach Hensler (actor), Katherine Musick (producer), Scot Hunt (writer), Scot Hunt (director), David Pinkston (editor),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Jérôme Benilouz (actor), Asil Raïs (actor), Richard Jacobs (producer), Jean-Christophe Leothier (producer), David Charhon (writer), David Charhon (director), Sophie Reine (editor),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Andy Buckley (actor), Bradd Buckley (actor), Dana Emberson (actor), Brendan McIvor Fleming (actor), Daniel Hansen (actor), Jason Kingsley (actor), Jack McGee (actor), Adrian Pasdar (actor), Mark Patterson (actor), Bruce Robison (actor), Charlie Robison (actor), Clayton Rohner (actor), Ivan Sergei (actor), Carl Strano (actor), Keith Bogart (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Larry Bishop (actor), Michael Brandon (actor), Michael Conrad (actor), Tony Curtis (actor), George Furth (actor), Louis Guss (actor), Bern Hoffman (actor), Barbi Benton (actress), Kim Novak (actress), Anne Ramsey (actress), Jenifer Shaw (actress), Hugh M. Hefner (producer), Ron Roth (producer), Dory Previn (writer), Dory Previn (composer),
Plot: A chorus girl comes to the realization that she is not getting any younger and that her longtime relationship with a nightclub comedian is going nowhere. She finds herself attracted to an unassuming but attentive--and much younger--delivery boy.
Keywords: abc-movie-of-the-week, affair, chorus-girl, comedian, dancer, delivery-boy, love, melodrama, nightclub, number-in-titleActors: James Dean (actor), Lee Lindsey (actor), Don McHenry (actor), Larry Newton (actor), Steve Pluta (actor), Elliott Sullivan (actor), Barbara Bolton (actress), Cloris Leachman (actress), Nancy Malone (actress), Helen Marcy (actress), Shirley Standlee (actress), William Corrigan (director),
Genres: ,Actors: Ralph Brooks (actor), Arthur Byron (actor), George Chandler (actor), Wong Chung (actor), Wallis Clark (actor), Douglas Cosgrove (actor), William B. Davidson (actor), William Demarest (actor), Lester Dorr (actor), Douglass Dumbrille (actor), Harold Entwistle (actor), Dick French (actor), Alan Hale (actor), Hugh Herbert (actor), Robert Barrat (actor),
Plot: Arlene Bradford is the quintessential high society bad girl. She's spoiled by Everett Bradford, her indulgently wealthy San Francisco father, who's recently become totally disgusted by her irresponsible antics. She has little regard for the law and the company she keeps. She has her investment broker fiancé Spencer Carlton involved in a stolen bond racket and flirts with local gangster types including the notorious Jake Bellow. The senior Bradford becomes concerned when Arlene begins to involve her half-sister Valkyr in her shady and highly dangerous activities.
Keywords: airedale-terrier, airport, bad-girl, bad-sister, bonds, butler, circular-wipe, con-artist, confession-of-crime, dead-body-in-carActors: Henry Armetta (actor), William Burress (actor), Wallis Clark (actor), James Donlan (actor), Robert Greig (actor), David Landau (actor), Bertram Marburgh (actor), C. Aubrey Smith (actor), Slim Summerville (actor), David Leo Tillotson (actor), Roland Young (actor), Cora Sue Collins (actress), Fifi D'Orsay (actress), Virginia Howell (actress), Louise Mackintosh (actress),
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Romance,Actors: Richard Arlen (actor), Martin Burton (actor), Jack Clifford (actor), Jim Corey (actor), Charles K. French (actor), Tom Kennedy (actor), Edward LeSaint (actor), Wilfred Lucas (actor), Jim Mason (actor), Guy Oliver (actor), Jack Pennick (actor), Lon Poff (actor), Syd Saylor (actor), Frances Dee (actress), Louise Dresser (actress),
Plot: Calamity Jane is a tough and rowdy woman in the old West who owns a saloon and gambling joint (and runs a cattle rustling operation as a sideline). One day she hires a pretty but naive young woman to work as a saloon girl, and finds that the girl is bringing out the maternal instincts she never knew she had. Those instincts are put to the test when a US army cavalry troop arrives to clean up the town and the girl and the young lieutenant in charge of the troop fall in love, and Calamity Jane may know something about the lieutenant that the girl doesn't.
Keywords: 1800s, american, army, b-movie, bar, bartender, calamity-jane, cattle, cavalry, dancehall-girlActors: Charles Dorian (actor), William Dyer (actor), Wadsworth Harris (actor), Jack Hull (actor), Rudolph Valentino (actor), Carmel Myers (actress), Lydia Yeamans Titus (actress), Mary Warren (actress), Edgar Franklin (writer), Fred Myton (writer), Paul Powell (director),
Plot: A married society couple (Dorian and Warren) persuade an unmarried pair (Valentino and Myers) to take their places at a party while they pretend to be the servants.
Keywords: eccentric, farceActors: Harry Bartlett (actor), Richard Clarke (actor), J. Gunnis Davis (actor), Ivan Dobble (actor), Jack Drumier (actor), Patrick Foy (actor), Charles Hartley (actor), James Sheridan (actor), Nellie Anderson (actress), Nora Cecil (actress), Madge Evans (actress), Maxine Elliott Hicks (actress), Pinna Nesbit (actress), Julia Burnham (writer), Harley Knoles (director),
Genres: Drama,
Coordinates: 53°48′00″N 1°45′07″W / 53.8000°N 1.75206°W / 53.8000; -1.75206
Bradford i/ˈbrædfərd/ is in the Metropolitan Borough of the City of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England, in the foothills of the Pennines 8.6 miles (14 km) west of Leeds, and 16 miles (26 km) northwest of Wakefield. Bradford became a municipal borough in 1847, and received its charter as a city in 1897. Following local government reform in 1974, city status was bestowed upon the wider metropolitan borough.
Bradford forms part of the West Yorkshire Urban Area conurbation which in 2001 had a population of 1.5 million and is the fourth largest urban area in the United Kingdom with the Bradford subdivision of the aforementioned urban area having a population of 528,155.
Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Bradford rose to prominence during the 19th century as an international centre of textile manufacture, particularly wool. It was a boomtown of the Industrial Revolution, and amongst the earliest industrialised settlements, rapidly becoming the "wool capital of the world". The area's access to a supply of coal, iron ore and soft water facilitated the growth of Bradford's manufacturing base, which, as textile manufacture grew, led to an explosion in population and was a stimulus to civic investment; Bradford has a large amount of listed Victorian architecture including the grand Italianate City Hall.
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