House of Love is a song by Christian music singer Amy Grant, recorded as a duet with country singer Vince Gill. It was released in November 1994 as the second single (after Lucky One) from her House of Love album in the United States and the fourth and final single from the album in the United Kingdom.
The song can also be heard over the closing credits of the Michael Keaton/Geena Davis romantic comedy Speechless.
House of Love, the second single from the album, performed moderately well on the charts. Although it didn’t reach the Christian radio charts, it was a huge success on the Adult Contemporary chart, peaking at #5. It remains Gill’s only appearance on this chart. It also cracked the Top Forty of the Billboard Hot 100, where it reached #37, and became a minor hit in the United Kingdom, peaking at #46 in that country.
Notwithstanding its chart success, the remaining legacy of House of Love is that the recording sessions for the song are where Grant and Gill first spent meaningful time together, and they soon became fast friends. Throughout the 1990s they remained so. Later, Grant divorced from her husband Gary Chapman in 1999; Gill had divorced in 1998. Grant and Gill married a year later.
Camp X-Ray is a 2014 American independent drama film based on the detention facility Camp X-Ray at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. The film is the directorial debut of Peter Sattler who also wrote the screenplay. It stars Kristen Stewart and Peyman Moadi with John Carroll Lynch, Lane Garrison, and Joseph Julian Soria in supporting roles. The film premiered on January 17, 2014, at 2014 Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. dramatic competition category and released on October 17, 2014, by IFC Films.
A young soldier (Stewart) escapes her suffocating small town by joining the military, only to find that she isn’t going for a tour of duty in Iraq as she hoped. Instead, she’s sent to Guantanamo. Met with hatred and abuse from the men in her charge, she forges an odd friendship with a young man who has been imprisoned at Gitmo for eight years (Maadi).
The film opened on October 17, showing in one theater in New York City. The film grossed $1,316. The film expanded to three screens in its second week and posted an increase of 134% of $3,480. As of November 9, the film has grossed $9,837. The film also debuted on video on demand and rose to #12 in overall releases on iTunes. Camp X-Ray grossed $50,744 in the United Arab Emirates.
Brazilian Romance is a 1987 studio album by Sarah Vaughan.
This was Vaughan’s last album, though she later contributed to Quincy Jones’ 1989 Back on the Block. Brazilian Romance was Vaughan’s third album of Brazilian music, following Copacabana (1979) and I Love Brazil! (1977)
Vaughan was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female at the 30th Annual Grammy Awards for her performance on this album. It peaked at #4 on the American jazz album chart.
“Once upon a time in a magic pet shop, there lived six Fluppy dogs, each with a pom-pom nose, satin bows and fun-to-tie-up hair. A snuggly soft fluppy dog wants to be your best friend.”
Fluppy Dogs began life as a Disney animation in 1986 and quickly turned into plush toys produced by Kenner. Along with the dogs & puppies there were also fashions sets & accessories, books and various other items. The line was due for expansion in 1987, but it never happened.
“Introducing Fluppy Puppies, the new arrivals in the Fluppy Dog Family. They’re so doggone cute, children are sure to give them all the special care and affection they need. Each perky pooch features a unique detachable bonnet, a little adorable face with pom-pom nose, plus soft terrycloth booties to keep their paws warm and dry. They come with their own personality medallion, just like Fluppy Dogs.”
There were six Fluppy Puppies produced which were 9″ high and each came with a bonnet or hair bow. There were also three sets of puppy twins due for production in 1987, but it never happened.
Popular during the mid-1900s, Noodle Ring Day is a dish made of flat noodles or any other type of flat pasta baked in a ring mold or a bundt pan.
Making noodle ring from scratch is easy, all you need is some cooked pasta, eggs, bread crumbs and a cheese that melts easily. Mix all the ingredients and put it in a mold and bake until all the eggs cook and the cheese melts. Unmold and fill the center with a filling of your choice. Many recipes recommend chicken salad, sautéed vegetables or canned tuna as a filling
Seasons is the debut single of Canadian hard rock band The Veer Union off the album Against the Grain. It was used as the theme song for the 2009 WWE Backlash PayPerView.
“In life, many people come up against an obstacle and give up or are so tainted by the traumatic event that they give up. ‘Seasons‘ is a metaphor for starting over no matter what the circumstance. We all go through rough times in life, but we are still here, and as long as we live, we must enjoy life and carry on and learn from everything we experience, that’s what makes us human,” said vocalist Crispin Earl in a 2010 interview.
Seasons peaked at #30 on the American Alternative Airplay chart, which has been their only chart hit. It also peaked at #10 on the Mainstream Rock chart (they have had two other hit there) and #16 on the Hot Rock and Alternative Songs (where they have had three other hits).
The Pittsburgh Penguins used Seasons as an unofficial theme song on their road to the 2009 Stanley Cup title. The Penguins’ general manager had heard the song on the radio and fell in love with it.
Karac Pendragon Plant (April 20,1972 – July 26,1977)
Karac Pendra Plant was the son of Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant. Karac Plant was born in Worcestershire, England. He was the youngest brother of Carmen Plant, and the first son of Robert and Maureen Plant (née Wilson). His middle name Pendra, is a shortened form of Pendragon (Welsh: warlord). ‘Pendragon’ is from Caractacus Caradog Pendragon (AD 6 – 54), a historical Celtic chieftain and the main Welsh leader of the Catuvellauni tribe. He led the native Briton resistance to the Roman conquest of Britain.
Karac Plant appeared uncredited in the Led Zeppelin 1976 film The Song Remains the Same, at the Plant family’s Welsh country farm originally filmed in late 1973.
He was also a passenger in the car accident the Plants had on the Greek island of Rhodes on August 4, 1975. The family were seriously injured when their hired Austin Mini skidded off the road and collided with a tree. In the back-seat, Karac suffered cuts and bruises. In an interview with People magazine on December 20, 1976, Robert said about his son: “We call him Baby Austin after that Bionic Man. He knows no fear, has no anticipation of danger. I envy him.”
Karac died aged six, while Robert was in the United States on Led Zeppelin’s 1977 North American tour. After leaving Oakland, California, on-board Caesar’s Chariot, drummer John Bonham, tour manager Richard Cole, and Plant headed to New Orleans for Led Zeppelin’s concert at the Louisiana Superdome, the site of their next show. The governor of Louisiana was also planning on awarding them with the titles of honorary colonels. Within hours of arriving and checking in at the Maison Dupuy hotel, Robert received a call from his wife Maureen at the family’s farmhouse near Kidderminster, Worcestershire. The first phone call said his son was sick, and within the next two hours later, she informed Robert that Karac had passed away. Earlier Karac had felt ill and been ordered to bed by the family doctor, but his condition deteriorated. Maureen called an ambulance but he failed to respond to treatment and died on the way to Kidderminster General Hospital on Tuesday, July 26, 1977. Robert Plant was shocked and devastated. An autopsy held on Monday, August 1, 1977, revealed Karac had died from natural causes. Only a week earlier Carmen had become ill with a stomach enteritis which may have been the same virus which affected Karac.
On the morning of July 27, 1977, band manager Peter Grant held a press conference in the lobby of the Maison Dupuy hotel, and announced the cancellation of the July 30 concert at Superdome, as well as the shows for Chicago (August 3) and Buffalo (August 6). 80,000 tickets for the Superdome had already been sold. The remaining tour dates were cancelled a week later. Plant, Cole, Bonham, and Plant’s personal assistant Dennis Sheehan, immediately flew back home to England on the next available commercial flight via Newark to Heathrow, London on British Airways. Because of the short turn around in time, Caesar’s Chariot was unavailable. Bonham and Plant then flew via private jet to Birmingham, and were met by Robert’s father at Birmingham airport, who stated: “Karac was the apple of Robert’s eye. They idolized one another.” The Plant family were shielded from the media and instead Swan Song Records representative Moira Bellas spoke on their behalf. Karac’s funeral and cremation was held in the first week of August 1977, in the old county of Hereford and Worcester.
His passing had an immediate and profound effect on Robert and the future of Led Zeppelin. For months Plant did not want to leave his family and farm in the West Midlands, and he briefly thought about leaving the music business altogether, to become a teacher in the Rudolf Steiner method. It was only after Bonham’s assurances that he decided to make a tentative return to public life at the end of April 1978.
Plant would dedicate the tune All My Love to Karac, and in 1993, Plant released the song I Believe which put into words his thoughts he kept for years to himself over the grief of losing his son. The song Carouselambra is also believed to be linked to the events surrounding Karac’s passing.
It should have been the greatest day of David’s life. A trip to New York, wife by his side, to visit his new publisher. Finally, after years of lonely struggle it looks as though the gods of fate are on his side. But on the way back to Penn station, a chance encounter changes all of that. David bumps into a man who covertly follows him and, just before he boards the train, passes by him close enough to whisper: “Remember me.”
When the stranger turns up in his home town, David begins to understand that this man wants something from him…something very personal that he may have no choice but to surrender.
Meanwhile, back in New York, ex-lawyer John Henderson does his girlfriend Kristina a favor and agrees to talk to Catherine Warren, an acquaintance of hers who believes she’s being stalked by an ex-lover. But soon John realizes that Catherine’s problem is far more complex and terrifying than he could ever have imagined…
There are people out there in the shadows, watching, waiting. They are the forgotten. And they’re about to turn.
Michael Paul Marshall Smith (born 3 May 1965) is an English novelist, screenwriter and short story writer who also writes as Michael Marshall, M.M. Smith and Michael Rutger. Born in Knutsford, Cheshire, Smith moved with his family at an early age to first Illinois and then Florida. When he was seven, the family moved again, this time to South Africa, and then to Australia before eventually returning home to England in 1973.
Along with fairy tales and mountain-top castles, Germany’s Black Forest region is known as the namesake — if not the origin — of the country’s most luscious cake. Dark rounds of chocolate cake are doused in a cherry syrup spiked with kirschwasser, a sour cherry brandy, then stacked atop a thin, chocolate base with deep layers of whipped cream and fresh cherries.
If that wasn’t flavor enough, the whole thing is swathed in more cream, dusted with shaved chocolate and studded with cherries. The resulting cake is a frothy dream dessert that’s the star of pastry cases around Germany, where it’s known as a Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte.
Once Upon a Time… Man (French: Il était une fois… l’homme) is a French animated TV series from 1978 directed by Albert Barillé. It is the first in the Once Upon a Time… franchise. The series explains world history in a format designed for children. The action focuses around one group. The same familiar characters appear in all episodes as they deal with the problems of their time.
Once Upon a Time… Man was purchased by most public broadcasting channels in Europe (and in many other countries) and is well-known by a significant percentage of the population. The program is known for explaining events to children from different viewpoints as the main characters come from many civilizations. Despite its age, the number of factual errors is very low and most countries re-run the animated series every few years.
The series’ opening and ending title sequences famously used Johann Sebastian Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor as the main title theme music. Shortening the piece to only 2 minutes in length, the introduction uses the very beginning, which jumps into the start of the middle section and finally the dramatic ending to coincide with the destruction of Earth at the end of the intro.
The show aired in the United States on the History Channel starting in January 1996.
A DVD boxed set of all the episodes of the series was produced by the French production company Procidis, and distributed locally by various distributors. The DVD series was produced in French, English (not sold in the UK or U.S.), Finnish, German, Dutch, Hebrew, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish and Polish. In 2011, an English-language, Region 1 DVD box set was made available in Canada and the United States. The set was produced and distributed by Imavision.
The episodes of Once Upon a Time… Man typically would follow one family, which most typically used the same set of archetypes that would be reused for the scenario. These same characters would later be used in the later additions to the Once Upon a Time… series, with some changes.
Maestro (Roger Carel) – The wise old man. He usually serves as the head of the tribe, as a religious priest, as an advisor to the king, or as an inventor. Maestro's hair is white and so long that it completely covers his body, and only his facial features, arms, and feet are ever visible; he is also distinguished by two hairs on the top of his head that look like antennae. Maestro often keeps objects in his beard and is sometimes seen fiddling around in it to find the one he wishes to present. He also serves as a mentor to the children of the series.
Peter / Pierre Carel (Roger Carel) – Another protagonist of the series, with brown hair, presented as an ordinary but likeable man. He is always married to Pierrette and is good friends with Jumbo. He is sometimes referred to as Pierrot. In some of the episodes set in the medieval era, Peter has blonde hair and is named Bert, but his personality and relationships are the same.
Jumbo / Le Gros (Yves Barsacq) – The strong young man with red curly hair, Jumbo is tall, somewhat clumsy, and very muscular. He prefers to solve problems with his fists, and his best friend Peter often needs to indicate for him not to attack.
Pierrette (Annie Balestra) – A kind blonde woman, typically married to Peter.
The Pest / Le Teigneux (Claude Bertrand) – A strong bully and one of two common recurring villains in the series (the other being the Dwarf). He is the major rival opposing Peter and Jumbo, and is either working against them or arguing with them.
The Dwarf / Le Nabot (Patrick Préjean) – The mastermind behind the Pest, the Dwarf is short and has red hair with three spikes pointing upward. He is often the only one who supports the Pest in his actions, and is often shown as a swindler.
The Clock – A rectangular box with eyes and hands, typically colored red, the Clock most commonly simply shows the year that the events on-screen are occurring. Occasionally, the Clock does intervene in the series in a minor role, typically to either have some emotional response like surprise or sadness to an event on-screen, or else to correct Maestro in-series when he has ideas too advanced for his historical time period.
Although historical figures would typically appear as themselves, occasionally one of the archetypes would be used, like Maestro as Leonardo da Vinci.
Episodes: 1 “And Earth was created…” “(Et La Terre Fut…)” aired September 30, 1978 and deals with the evolution of life before Man to the Stone Age.
2 “Neanderthal Man” “(L’Homme Du Neanderthal)” aired October 7, 1978 and covers the time of Paleolithic culture to the Ice age.
3 “Cro-Magnon Man” “(Le Cro-Magnon)” aired October 14, 1978 and shows the history of Cro-Magnon culture.
4 “The Fertile Valleys” “(Les vallées fertiles)” aired October 21, 1978 and details the rise of agriculture, as well as ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Babylon and Israel.
5 “The First Empires” “(Les Premiers Empires)” aired October 28, 1978 and details the empires of Babylon, Assyria, Persia and others from about BC 2000 to BC 323.
6 “The Age of Pericles” “(Le siècle de Périclès)” aired November 4, 1978 and chronicles Ancient Greece.
7 “The Pax Romana” “(Pax Romana)” aired November 11, 1978 and focuses on the time of Julius Caesar, before the Pax Romana commenced. In the last part of this episode, the birth and life of Jesus Christ are told.
8 “The Conquest of Islam” “(Les conquêtes de l’Islam)” aired November 18, 1978 during the Byzantine Empire, the reign of Justinian I (reigned 527–565), and the spread of Islam between the 7th and 8th centuries.
9 “Carolingians” “(Carolingens)” aired November 25, 1978 and features the Carolingian Empire.
10 “The Age of Vikings” “(L’âge des Vikings)” aired December 2, 1978 and chronicles the Vikings times.
11 “The Cathedral Builders” “(Les bâtisseurs de cathédrales)” aired December 9, 1978 and focuses on the Middle Ages in the time of the Crusades.
12 “The Travels of Marco Polo” “(Les Voyages De Marco Polo)” aired December 16, 1978 and told the history of Marco Polo.
13 “The Hundred Years’ War” aired December 23, 1978 chronicles to the end of the Hundred Years’ War.
14 “The Quattrocento” “(Le Quattrocentro)” aired December 30, 1978 told the time of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.
15 “The Golden Age of Spain” “(Le siècle d’or espagnol)” aired January 6, 1979 and chronicled the history of the Spanish Golden Age. This episode was censored in Spain.
16 “Elizabethan England” “(L’Angleterre d’Élizabeth)” aired January 13, 1979 and focused mostly on the voyages of Sir Francis Drake.
17 “The Golden Age of the Low Countries” aired January 20, 1979 and told of the history of the Dutch Golden Age.
18 “The Great Reign of Louis XIV” aired January 27, 1979 and chronicled the history of Louis XIV.
19 “Peter the Great and his Times” “(Pierre le Grand et son époque)” aired February 3, 1979 and told the history of Peter the Great.
20 “The Age of Reason” aired March 3, 1979 and chronicled the history of the Age of Enlightenment.
21 “America” “(L’Amerique)” aired March 10, 1979 and told of the New World between 1492 and the American Civil War.
22 “The French Revolution” aired March 17, 1979 and detailed the history of the French Revolution.
23 “The Awakening of the People” aired March 24, 1979 chronicled the mid-nineteenth century and the development of railroad.
24 “The Belle Époque” aired March 31, 1979 and focused on the later decade of the nineteenth century, the development of automobiles and the twentieth century up to World War One.
25 “The Crazy Years” aired April 7, 1979 and chronicled the development of aviation, Roaring Twenties, Great Depression and World War Two.
26 “Once Upon a Time… the Earth (and tomorrow?)” “(Il était une fois… la terre (Et demain?)” aired April 14, 1979.