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Philippe Petit (French pronunciation: [filip pəti]; born 13 August 1949) is a French highwire artist who gained fame for his unauthorized highwire walks between the towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris in 1971 and of Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1973, as well as between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City in August 1974.
Within the Wires is a dramatic anthology podcast in the style of epistolary fiction.. The series was created in 2016 by Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson (the latter also narrating the first season), and it has been produced as part of the Night Vale Presents podcast network since June 21, 2016.
Butchie is a fictional character on the HBO drama series The Wire, portrayed by S. Robert Morgan. A blind man, he runs an East-Side Baltimore bar, and is Omar Little's bank and advisor. Like his character, actor S. Robert Morgan is blind; he lost his sight to macular degeneration in his twenties. [1]
Delores is the owner of the bar frequented by the Stevedores. She has a great respect for union leader Frank Sobotka and holds cash to be handed to workers in his union who are struggling for money on his behalf. She has an uneasy friendship with Ziggy Sobotka because he is constantly exposing his genitalia in her bar.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - -Alcoholic drinks should carry a label warning consumers about their cancer risks, the U.S. Surgeon General said in an advisory on Friday, noting that their consumption ...
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John Ramsey, father of JonBenet Ramsey, shares how his faith was 'challenged' and ultimately strengthened after losing his two daughters over a four-year period in the 1990s.
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers is an American children's picture book written and illustrated by the American author Mordicai Gerstein. Published in 2003, the book recounts the achievement of Philippe Petit , a French man who walked on a tightrope wire between the roofs of the twin towers of the World Trade Center in August 1974.