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James Mathew Hanks was born in Shasta County, California on June 15, 1961. [1] He is the son of Janet Marylyn (née Frager) [2] and itinerant cook Amos Mefford Hanks.[3] [4] Hanks is also the youngest brother of fellow actor Tom Hanks and entomologist Larry Hanks, but they were not raised together.
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Substance D, a fictitious drug in Philip K. Dick's 1977 novel A Scanner Darkly, is derived from a plant with blue flower. Tennessee Williams used images of blue roses in his play The Glass Menagerie to symbolize the frailty and uniqueness of Laura, a central character that reflects the life of Williams' sister, who underwent a lobotomy. In the ...
The last line of the prepared text contained an allusion to Rupert Brooke's World War I poem "The Soldier". [166] The script for the speech does not make reference to Collins; as he remained onboard Columbia in orbit around the Moon, it was expected that he would be able to return the module to Earth in the event of a mission failure.
A diamante poem is a poem that makes the shape of a diamond. The poem can be used in two ways, either comparing and contrasting two different subjects, or naming synonyms at the beginning of the poem and then antonyms for the second half for a subject. In the poems, the subject is named in one word in the first line.
The Red Flower [210] (Portrait of Miss H.) [11] Oil on canvas 1890 Private collection exterior, full-length, a young girl in a white dress holding a flower Portrait of Little Miss S. (Stevens) Oil on canvas Vision of St. Angela d'Angant: Oil on canvas 1890 Manufactures Building: Iron Working Textile Art Design [18] Murals Destroyed in the July ...
His hopes of becoming a player in the American Football League were dashed in 1967 by Kansas City Chiefs coach Hank Stram, who informed then-28-year-old Amos, "Young man, you are not a football ...
John Amos, the actor who played James Evans Sr. on 'Good Times,' adult Kunta Kinte on 'Roots' and Cleo McDowell in 'Coming to America,' has died. He was 84.