Majel Barrett Majel Barrett-Roddenberry (first name pronounced /ˈmeɪdʒəl/; born Majel Leigh Hudec;[1] February 23, 1932 – December 18, 2008) was an American actress and producer. She is best known for her role as Nurse Christine Chapel in the original Star Trek series, Lwaxana Troi on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and for being the voice of most onboard computer interfaces throughout the series. She was also the wife of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. As the wife of Roddenberry and given her ongoing relationship with Star Trek—participating in some way in every series during her lifetime—she was sometimes referred to as "the First Lady of Star Trek". Biography[edit] Star Trek[edit] Barrett as the original "Number One" in Star Trek: The Original Series first pilot episode Barrett and her husband, Gene Roddenberry, were honored in 2002 by the Space Foundation with the Douglas S. Other roles[edit] The voice in the railroads[edit] Final voiceover work[edit] Death[edit]
Lord Of The Rings Fantasy World Star Trek Wiki - Memory Alpha Flight of the Phoenix (2004 film) In the middle of the night, Davis (Jared Padalecki) goes out to urinate without informing anybody, trips, gets lost in a sandstorm, and dies. The group panics after a failed search for him, and Kelly (Miranda Otto) argues with Frank, who says that walking out of the desert would fail and that their only option is to await rescue. The group initially agrees but reconsiders after Elliot, claiming to be an aeronautical engineer, pitches a radical idea: rebuild the wreckage of their C-119 into a functional aircraft. Frank initially refuses, which causes Liddle (Scott Michael Campbell) to wander off on his own in protest. Through a series of photos, we see what became of the crew when they made it back to civilization. The set was the site of several mishaps: A ferry sank during transportation of a major set piece across a river, forcing the river bottom salvage of the aircraft fuselage. Four aircraft were used during the film: Fairchild C-119G, N15501 - flying shots.
Dragon Quest Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Dragon Quest Logo de la licence Dragon Quest Plate-forme Dragon Quest (ドラゴンクエスト, Doragon Kuesuto?), aussi connu sous le nom de Dragon Warrior aux États-Unis, est une série de jeux vidéo créée en 1986 par le concepteur Yuji Horii. La série est extrêmement populaire au Japon et s'est vendue à près de 50 millions d'exemplaires[1] dans le monde. Création[modifier | modifier le code] Dragon Quest est l'œuvre maîtresse de Yuji Horii. De par son âge, la série a connu un grand nombre de plates-formes différentes : MSX, NES, SNES, Game Boy Color, GBA, DS, Wii, Téléphones portables, PS, et PS2. Les épisodes[modifier | modifier le code] Jeux dérivés[modifier | modifier le code] La série a aussi donné naissance à des séries dérivées telle que : Adaptations[modifier | modifier le code] Plusieurs mangas et animes ont été adaptés de Dragon Quest Dragon Quest: Dai no Daibouken : un manga de 37 volumes, une série TV de 46 épisodes, 3 films animés.
Welcome to LWN.net The Flight of the Phoenix (1965 film) Though the film was a failure at the box office, it has since gained a cult following. Meanwhile, Dorfmann has been working on a radical idea: He believes they can build a new aircraft from the wreckage. The C-82 has twin booms extending rearwards from each engine and connected by the horizontal stabilizer. Although Towns is resistant, Renaud points out that activity, and any hope will keep the men's morale up and so Towns agrees with the plan. Final plans are made for the Phoenix's flight. Towns and Moran learn that Dorfmann designs model aircraft instead of full-sized aircraft. Just as the water runs out, the Phoenix is completed. In 2005, Hollywood aviation historian Simon Beck identified the aircraft used in the film: A famous racing/stunt/movie pilot and collector of warplanes, Paul Mantz was flying the Tallmantz Phoenix P-1, the machine that was "made of the wreckage", in front of the cameras on the morning of July 8, 1965. The Phoenix "static" model as seen in the film
Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki LinuxGames - Embrace your inner penguin Heaven's Gate (film) There were major setbacks in the film's production due to cost and time overruns, negative press, and rumors about Cimino's allegedly overbearing directorial style. It is generally considered one of the biggest box office bombs of all time, and in some circles has been considered to be one of the worst films ever made. It opened to poor reviews and earned less than $3 million domestically (from an estimated budget of $44 million),[6] eventually contributing to the near collapse of its studio, United Artists, and effectively destroying the reputation of Cimino, previously one of the ascendant directors of Hollywood owing to his celebrated 1978 film The Deer Hunter, which had won Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director in 1979.[7] Cimino had an expansive and ambitious vision for the film and pushed it about four times over its planned budget. In 1870, two young men, Jim Averill (Kris Kristofferson) and William "Billy" Irvine (John Hurt), are graduating from Harvard College.
LUV talk: An introduction to Linux/Unix programming: C/C++ Prev - Index - Next ... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.Robert Firth Introduction In 1969, the first version of Unix climbed out of the primordial swamp at the AT&T labs, having self-assembled itself from PDP-7 assembler. Around 1971, C evolved out of a series of earlier languages, including B (no-one has ever accused software engineers of creative naming). C has spawned a number of descendants, including Objective-C, C++ (also developed at the AT&T labs) and Java. The vast majority of the code used in the Unix & Linux kernel, support tools, C compiler, shells, X-Windows etc. is written in C and, to a lesser extent, C++. The good, the bad and the ugly Historically, C has been popular because: However, C also has a number of drawbacks: Limited range of data types. David Marshal, from Cardiff University, has an excellent on-line C tutorial. Compiling C code on Linux .
The Lone Ranger (2013 film) Filming was plagued with production problems and budgetary concerns, which at one point led to the film's premature cancellation.[5] The Lone Ranger was released theatrically in the United States on July 3, 2013. The film received mixed to negative reviews in the United States and mixed to positive reviews outside the country. It was a commercial failure, grossing $260 million worldwide against an estimated $225 million production budget plus an additional $150 million marketing budget. The film was nominated for Academy Awards for visual effects and hairstyling/makeup. At a sideshow in a San Francisco fair in 1933, a boy, Will, who idolizes a legend known as the Lone Ranger, encounters Tonto, an elderly Comanche Native American, who proceeds to recount his experiences with that Old West adventurer. In 1869 Colby, Texas, lawyer John Reid returns home via the uncompleted Transcontinental Railroad, managed by railroad tycoon Latham Cole.
Indiana Jones (franchise) The Indiana Jones franchise is an American entertainment franchise, based on the adventures of Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones, a fictional archaeologist. It began in 1981 with the film Raiders of the Lost Ark. The franchise has expanded beyond film and television. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) is set in 1935, a year before Raiders of the Lost Ark. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) opens in 1912 with a thirteen-year-old Indiana (River Phoenix) attempting to recover an ornamental cross belonging to Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, a task which he finally completes in 1938. The countries visited in the four Indiana Jones films. Spielberg and Lucas aimed to make Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom much darker, because of their personal moods following their respective break-ups and divorces. Jeff Nathanson met with Spielberg and Lucas in August 2004, and turned in the next drafts in October and November 2005, titled The Atomic Ants.