Kidde Fire Extinguisher Recall 2017 Guide for US and Canada
Need help determining if your Kidde fire extinguisher is in the recall? This video will guide you through the process including where to locate the model, date code, and serial number information and how to request a replacement.
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Forrest Fenn & the Denver Museum of Nature & Science - Live Stream with Q&A
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Family Channel
Family, officially known as Family Channel and formerly known on-air as The Family Channel, is a Canadian English-language Category A television channel. Licensed as a premium television service, Family is the most popular children's channel in Canada in terms of overall viewership; it is available in approximately 6 million Canadian households as of 2013. Originally a joint venture between Allarcom Pay Television and the operators of First Choice (now The Movie Network), the network was most recently sold by Astral Media (which had been acquired by Bell Media) to children's programming distributor DHX Media.
While originally positioned as a family-oriented network, by the late 1990s, Family had shifted its focus towards a predominantly youth audience, catering towards children and teenagers between 8 and 14 years of age with television series, theatrical films, and made-for-TV movies targeted towards the demographic. The majority of Family's programming is sourced from the United States-based Disney Channel and its sister networks, alongside original, Canadian-produced programming.
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Tandem Skydive | Daniel Vargas from Bakersfield, CA
Tandem skydiving allows first-time jumpers to experience the thrill and excitement of the sport without the preparation and knowledge required for a solo jump. It only takes a brief training after which you will freefall harnessed to a highly skilled instructor from over two miles above the Earth, reaching speeds of up to 120 miles an hour. At the safe altitude of 5,000 feet the instructor will deploy the main parachute. If you choose, you can activate the parachute yourself, and then take in the view of the San Joaquin Valley, Santa Andreas Fault, on the tranquil ride down.
Your USPA certified tandem instructor will wear a special glove equipped with two cameras, one for video and one for stills, with a special lens to capture the up-close footage of you in freefall. You will be able to share your reactions and expressions of your greatest adventure with everyone!
We dub, edit, and add music to personalize your video right after you jump. You will leave Skydive Taft with your own personal USB thumb drive of your video and digital photos for you to keep. Please notify us at the time of your jump if you would like our skilled instructors to capture your skydiving experience forever.
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A four to six hour ground school prepares you for your first AFF jump, which is the best and most efficient way to learn how to skydive solo. You will jump from over two miles above the earth accompanied by two jumpmasters while wearing your own parachute system.
After approximately one minute of freefall, you will deploy your own parachute and land while being coached by your instructor over the radio. This program involves eight levels of instruction. After you have completed your AFF training, our coaching program can continue with you until you qualify for your USPA A License.
Must be at least 18 years of age with a valid photo I.D. Cannot weigh over 230 pounds. All prices include complete training, equipment, as well as the jump. All prices are per person, per jump.
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Denver, Colorado | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:19 1 History
00:12:32 2 Geography
00:14:07 2.1 Neighborhoods
00:16:21 2.2 Adjacent counties, municipalities and Census designated place (CDP)s
00:16:35 2.3 Climate
00:20:35 3 Demographics
00:25:34 3.1 Languages
00:26:39 3.2 Longevity
00:26:58 4 Economy
00:35:31 5 Culture and contemporary life
00:42:07 6 Sports
00:45:20 7 Parks and recreation
00:48:28 8 Government
00:50:00 8.1 Politics
00:55:09 8.2 Taxes
00:56:00 9 Education
00:57:19 10 Media
00:57:36 10.1 Television stations
00:59:37 10.2 Radio stations
01:00:09 10.3 Print
01:01:01 11 Transportation
01:01:10 11.1 City streets
01:04:52 11.2 Cycling
01:06:01 11.3 Micro-mobility
01:07:04 11.4 Walkability
01:07:43 11.5 Modal characteristics
01:08:13 11.6 Freeways and highways
01:13:18 11.7 Mass transportation
01:17:54 11.7.1 Denver public transportation statistics
01:18:45 11.8 Airports
01:21:04 12 Notable people
01:21:12 13 In popular culture
01:22:49 14 Sister cities
01:23:55 15 See also
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Denver (), officially the City and County of Denver, is the capital and most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. The Denver downtown district is immediately east of the confluence of Cherry Creek with the South Platte River, approximately 12 mi (19 km) east of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Denver is named after James W. Denver, a governor of the Kansas Territory. It is nicknamed the Mile High City because its official elevation is exactly one mile (5280 feet or 1609.3 meters) above sea level. The 105th meridian west of Greenwich, the longitudinal reference for the Mountain Time Zone, passes directly through Denver Union Station.
Denver is ranked as a Beta world city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. With an estimated population of 716,492 in 2018, Denver is the 19th-most populous U.S. city, and with a 19.38% increase since the 2010 United States Census, it has been one of the fastest-growing major cities in the United States. The 10-county Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area had an estimated 2018 population of 2,932,415 and is the 19th most populous U.S. metropolitan statistical area. The 12-city Denver-Aurora, CO Combined Statistical Area had an estimated 2018 population of 3,572,798 and is the 15th most populous U.S. metropolitan area. Denver is the most populous city of the 18-county Front Range Urban Corridor, an oblong urban region stretching across two states with an estimated 2018 population of 4,976,781. Denver is the most populous city within a 500-mile (800 km) radius and the second-most populous city in the Mountain West after Phoenix, Arizona. In 2016, Denver was named the best place to live in the United States by U.S. News & World Report.
Animation studios owned by The Walt Disney Company | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:49 1 Full list
00:01:58 2 Disney-ABC Television Group
00:02:09 2.1 Disney Television Animation
00:02:48 2.2 DIC Entertainment
00:03:25 2.3 Greengrass Productions
00:03:45 2.4 Jetix related
00:05:17 3 Walt Disney Studios
00:05:27 3.1 Walt Disney Animation Studios
00:05:38 3.1.1 Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida
00:09:36 3.1.1.1 Projects
00:09:43 3.1.2 DisneyToon Studios
00:10:12 3.1.3 Disney Circle 7 Animation
00:11:29 3.1.4 The Secret Lab
00:15:07 3.2 Lucasfilm
00:15:15 3.2.1 Lucasfilm Animation
00:15:34 3.3 Pixar
00:17:34 3.3.1 Pixar Canada
00:17:43 3.4 Distribution deals
00:18:16 4 Marvel Entertainment
00:18:34 4.1 Marvel Animation
00:18:57 5 Overseas studios
00:19:26 5.1 Disney Animation Australia
00:21:39 5.2 Disney Animation Canada
00:23:00 5.3 Disney Animation France
00:24:50 5.3.1 Projects
00:24:58 5.4 Disney Animation Japan
00:27:16 6 Jumbo Pictures
00:28:04 7 ImageMovers Digital
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The Walt Disney Company has owned and operated several animation studios since the company's founding on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio; the current Walt Disney Animation Studios in Burbank, California is the company's flagship feature animation studio and claims heritage from this original studio. Adding to the growth of the company and its motion picture studio division The Walt Disney Studios, several other animation studios were added through acquisitions and through openings of satellite studios outside the United States. These expanded the company's animation output into television, direct-to-video, and digital releases, in addition to its primary feature animation releases.
Currently Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar and Lucasfilm Animation (through Lucasfilm) are parts of The Walt Disney Studios unit. This article does not include other animation studios whose films were released by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (the company's distribution unit) and not acquired by the company, nor does it count the Laugh-O-Gram Studio (1921–23), Disney's first animation studio, which predated the founding of The Walt Disney Company. For example, certain Studio Ghibli films were distributed by Disney internationally but never owned by the company. Also, Miramax, a independently operating unit of the Walt Disney Studios, also purchased US rights to foreign animated movies.
Symposium on Ancient Oman (afternoon)
Afternoon session of an all-day symposium, Ancient Oman: Archaeological Digs and Historical Discoveries in the Sultanate of Oman. The symposium was sponsored in partnership with the Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center.
Speaker Biography: Krista Lewis is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Arkansas and director of the Land of Frankincense Archaeological Project.
Speaker Biography: Joy McCorriston is professor of anthropology at Ohio State University and director of the ASOM Project (Ancient Socioecological systems in Oman).
Speaker Biography: Michael Harrower is associate professor of archaeology at Johns Hopkins University and director of the Archaeological Water Histories of Oman Project.
Speaker Biography: Nathan Reigner is a research fellow at the Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center.
Speaker Biography: Christopher Thornton is senior director of cultural heritage for the National Geographic Society and director of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Bat in Oman.
Speaker Biography: Eric Staples is assistant professor of history at al-Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates.
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PAUL NEWMAN - WikiVidi Documentary
Paul Leonard Newman was an American actor, voice actor, film director, producer, race car driver, IndyCar owner, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and activist. He won and was nominated for numerous awards, winning an Academy Award for his performance in the 1986 film The Color of Money, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, an Emmy Award, and many others. Newman's other roles include the title characters in The Hustler , Hud , Harper and Cool Hand Luke , as well as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean , The Sting , and The Verdict . He also voiced Doc Hudson in the first installment of Disney-Pixar's Cars-as his final acting performance, and received a posthumous credit for his voice recordings in Cars 3 . Newman won several national championships as a driver in Sports Car Club of America road racing, and his race teams won several championships in open-wheel IndyCar racing. He was a co-founder of Newman's Own, a ...
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AMERICAN REVOLUTION REVOLUTIONARY DOCUMENT 1799 TEA TAX ENGR
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This is an authentic historical political engraving from 1779. Full of symbolism, it shows father time using a magic lantern to project an image of the American Revolution to an audience of the continents, with America represented by an Indian crouched in the foreground. The black woman represents Africa, the woman holding a lantern symbolizes Asia and a woman bearing a shield is for Europe. Britain is shown as a prostrate lion and France as the cock. The image shows a teapot exploding among frightened British troops as American troops advance through the smoke. The Continental Army is waving the Navy Jack flag whilst charging. On the other side of the tea pot the British soldiers flee. It is titled The Tea Tax Tempest and is dated 1779. It is professionally framed behind glass and has not been opened. It appears to be in very nice condition considering the paper is over 200 years old. There are a few minor rim tears and some creases. All in all, very nice condition. The image measures approximately 17 x 13 inches, not including the bottom wording. The bottom shows Holland and Switzerland's contests with tyrants and is pictured as emblematic of the revolt of the American colonies. The overall framed piece measures approximately 22x20 inches. It was engraved by Carl Guttenberg who was born in 1743 and died in 1790. This piece was made in 1779 during the height of the American revolution which did not end until 1783. This is a very hard-to-find image that is perfect the collector of American history memorabilia
We are always seeking fine and unusual antiques for this area's largest and most active antique store in Ft Myers, Fl. (Please visit our Gannonsantiques.com website to get an idea of the kinds of things we're looking for.) We will buy entire Estates, entire collections or a single item. We have collectors for historical documents, Asian antiques and mid century modern objects to name just a few. Our tastes are very general and always looking for the best! We have sold a lot of gold and silver coins, fine jewelry with large diamonds, and fun things like antique toys & banks, as well. I am always ready to look. It's part of the adventure! PLEASE CALL ME AT 239-822-8948 OR TEXT ME PHOTOS OF WHAT YOU HAVE.
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Call the Midwife
Call the Midwife is a BBC period drama series about a group of nurse midwives working in the East End of London in the 1950s. It stars Jessica Raine, Miranda Hart, Helen George, Bryony Hannah, Laura Main, Jenny Agutter, Pam Ferris, Judy Parfitt, Cliff Parisi, Stephen McGann, Ben Caplan, Emerald Fennell, and Victoria Yeates. The series was created by Heidi Thomas, originally based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth but since expanded to include new, historically sourced material. The first series of six episodes premiered in the UK on 15 January 2012. The series is produced by Neal Street Productions, a production company founded and owned by the film director and producer Sam Mendes, Call the Midwife Executive Producer Pippa Harris and Caro Newling. Call the Midwife achieved very high ratings in its first series, making it the most successful new drama series on BBC One since 2001. A second series of eight episodes aired in the UK in early 2013. The series achieved a consolidated series average of 10.47 million viewers. A third 8-part series aired in the UK from January 2014, with a consolidated average of 10.53 million.
The autumn 2012 PBS broadcast of the first series of Call the Midwife in the United States received widespread critical acclaim, earning a Metacritic score of 8.0. The Wall Street Journal declared that this immensely absorbing drama is worth any trouble it takes to catch up with its singular pleasures, while The Washington Post stated that the cast is marvellous, the gritty, post-war set pieces are meticulously recreated. TV Guide called the series a delight to watch, while the San Francisco Chronicle described it as sentimental, poignant and often heartbreaking.
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McMinnville Council Work Session & Meeting 8/27/19
City Council Work Session - Kids on the Block 00:00
Adjournment of Work Session 54:00
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Huntsville, Alabama | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:14 1 History
00:01:23 1.1 First settlers
00:02:41 1.2 Incorporation
00:04:00 1.3 Emerging industries
00:04:59 1.4 Civil War
00:06:46 1.5 After the Civil War
00:08:06 1.6 Great Depression 1930s
00:08:32 1.7 World War II
00:09:21 1.8 Missile development
00:11:11 1.9 Space flight
00:13:30 1.10 Biotechnology
00:14:43 2 Geography
00:16:19 2.1 Boundaries
00:17:12 2.2 Climate
00:20:33 3 Demographics
00:22:29 3.1 2010 census
00:24:08 3.2 Demographic distribution
00:24:17 3.3 Sex ratio and income distribution
00:24:28 4 Politics and government
00:26:03 5 Public safety and health
00:26:32 5.1 Fire
00:27:16 5.1.1 Volunteer organizations
00:28:02 5.2 EMS
00:28:36 5.3 Police
00:29:01 5.3.1 Police Academy
00:29:22 5.4 Hospitals
00:29:35 6 Economy
00:30:56 6.1 Retail
00:31:33 6.2 Space and defense
00:32:02 7 Infrastructure
00:32:11 7.1 Transportation
00:34:33 7.1.1 Public transit
00:35:14 7.1.2 Railroads
00:37:19 7.2 Air service
00:37:48 7.3 Ports
00:38:19 7.4 Bicycle routes
00:38:33 7.5 Utilities
00:39:27 8 Media and communications
00:39:37 8.1 Newspapers
00:40:59 8.2 Magazines
00:41:19 8.3 Radio
00:41:40 8.4 Television
00:43:38 8.5 Film
00:45:15 9 Education
00:45:24 9.1 K–12 education
00:47:35 9.2 Budgeting
00:48:05 9.3 Higher education
00:50:05 10 Culture
00:50:13 10.1 Historic districts
00:51:15 10.2 Museums
00:53:03 10.3 Parks
00:56:11 10.4 Festivals
00:59:34 10.5 Public golf courses
00:59:59 10.6 Private golf courses
01:00:50 10.7 Libraries
01:01:47 10.8 Arts associations
01:02:14 10.8.1 Arts Council
01:03:30 10.9 Performing arts
01:09:26 10.10 Visual arts
01:10:27 10.11 Convention center and arena
01:11:07 10.12 Local breweries
01:12:09 10.13 Comedy and other entertainment
01:12:34 10.14 Other
01:13:04 11 Sports
01:13:13 11.1 Current sports franchises
01:14:20 11.2 Past sports franchises
01:15:34 11.3 Stadiums
01:15:51 12 Notable people
01:16:00 13 Sister cities
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Huntsville is a city located primarily in Madison County in the Appalachian region of northern Alabama. Huntsville is the county seat of Madison County. The city extends west into neighboring Limestone County and south into Morgan County. Huntsville's population was 180,105 as of the 2010 census. Huntsville is the third-largest city in Alabama and the largest city in the five-county Huntsville-Decatur-Albertville, AL Combined Statistical Area, which at the 2013 census estimate had a total population of 683,871. The Huntsville Metropolitan Area's population was 417,593 in 2010 to become the 2nd largest in Alabama. Huntsville metro's population reached 441,000 by 2014.It grew across nearby hills north of the Tennessee River, adding textile mills, then munitions factories, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and the United States Army Aviation and Missile Command nearby at the Redstone Arsenal. The National Trust for Historic Preservation named Huntsville to its America's Dozen Distinctive Destinations for 2010 list.
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History of Western civilization | Wikipedia audio article
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History of Western civilization
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Western civilization traces its roots back to Europe and the Mediterranean. It is linked to the Roman Empire and with Medieval Western Christendom which emerged from the Middle Ages to experience such transformative episodes as the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, scientific revolution, and the development of liberal democracy. The civilizations of Classical Greece and Ancient Rome are considered seminal periods in Western history; a few cultural contributions also emerged from the pagan peoples of pre-Christian Europe, such as the Celts and Germans, as well as some significant religious contributions derived from Judaism and Hellenistic Judaism stemming back to Second Temple Judea, Galilee, and the early Jewish diaspora; and some other Middle Eastern influences. Christianity and Roman Catholicism has played a prominent role in the shaping of Western civilization, which throughout most of its history, has been nearly equivalent to Christian culture. (There were Christians outside of the West, such as China, India, Russia, Byzantium and the Middle East). Western civilization has spread to produce the dominant cultures of modern Americas and Oceania, and has had immense global influence in recent centuries in many ways.
Following the 5th century Fall of Rome, Western Europe entered the Middle Ages, during which period the Catholic Church filled the power vacuum left in the West by the fall of the Western Roman Empire, while the Eastern Roman Empire (or Byzantine Empire) endured in the East for centuries, becoming a Hellenic Eastern contrast to the Latin West. By the 12th century, Western Europe was experiencing a flowering of art and learning, propelled by the construction of cathedrals and the establishment of medieval universities. Christian unity was shattered by the Reformation from the 16th century. A merchant class grew out of city states, initially in the Italian peninsula (see Italian city-states), and Europe experienced the Renaissance from the 14th to the 17th century, heralding an age of technological and artistic advance and ushering in the Age of Discovery which saw the rise of such global European Empires as those of Spain and Portugal.
The Industrial Revolution began in Britain in the 18th century. Under the influence of the Enlightenment, the Age of Revolution emerged from the United States and France as part of the transformation of the West into its industrialised, democratised modern form. The lands of North and South America, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand became first part of European Empires and then home to new Western nations, while Africa and Asia were largely carved up between Western powers. Laboratories of Western democracy were founded in Britain's colonies in Australasia from the mid-19th centuries, while South America largely created new autocracies. In the 20th century, absolute monarchy disappeared from Europe, and despite episodes of Fascism and Communism, by the close of the century, virtually all of Europe was electing its leaders democratically. Most Western nations were heavily involved in the First and Second World Wars and protracted Cold War. World War II saw Fascism defeated in Europe, and the emergence of the United States and Soviet Union as rival global powers and a new East-West political contrast.
Other than in Russia, the European Empires disintegrated after World War II and civil rights movements and widescale multi-ethnic, multi-faith migrations to Europe, the Americas and Oceania lowered the earlier predominance of ethnic Europeans in Western culture. European nations moved towards greater economic and political co-operation through the European Union. The Cold War ended around 1990 with the collapse of Soviet imposed Communism in Central and Eastern Europe. In the 21st century, the Western World retains significant global economic power and influ ...
Kentucky | Wikipedia audio article
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Kentucky
00:01:24 1 Etymology
00:02:31 2 Geography
00:04:25 2.1 Regions
00:05:19 2.2 Climate
00:08:31 2.2.1 Natural disasters
00:08:39 2.3 Lakes and rivers
00:09:57 2.4 Natural environment and conservation
00:11:24 2.5 Natural attractions
00:13:13 3 History
00:16:56 3.1 19th century
00:19:02 3.2 20th century
00:20:05 4 Law and government
00:21:21 4.1 Executive branch
00:22:44 4.2 Legislative branch
00:23:26 4.3 Judicial branch
00:24:10 4.4 Federal representation
00:24:59 4.5 Law
00:27:33 4.6 Politics
00:30:01 5 Demographics
00:31:59 5.1 Race and ancestry
00:35:08 5.2 Language
00:36:06 5.3 Religion
00:39:47 6 Economy
00:43:59 6.1 Taxation
00:45:44 6.2 Government-promoted slogans
00:47:07 7 Transportation
00:47:16 7.1 Roads
00:48:25 7.2 Rails
00:50:27 7.3 Air
00:52:02 7.4 Water
00:53:15 8 Subdivisions and settlements
00:53:25 8.1 Counties
00:54:12 8.2 Consolidated city-county governments
00:55:09 8.3 Major cities
01:00:26 9 Education
01:03:26 10 Media
01:03:35 11 Culture
01:08:18 11.1 Music
01:11:47 11.2 Literature
01:13:17 11.3 Cuisine
01:14:12 11.4 Sports
01:18:04 11.5 State symbols
01:18:13 11.6 Official state places and events
01:18:30 11.7 Kentucky colonel
01:19:03 12 Gallery
01:19:11 13 See also
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Kentucky ( (listen) kən-TUK-ee), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state located in the east south-central region of the United States. Although styled as the State of Kentucky in the law creating it, Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth (the others being Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts). Originally a part of Virginia, in 1792 Kentucky became the 15th state to join the Union. Kentucky is the 37th most extensive and the 26th most populous of the 50 United States.
Kentucky is known as the Bluegrass State, a nickname based on the bluegrass found in many of its pastures due to the fertile soil. One of the major regions in Kentucky is the Bluegrass Region in central Kentucky, which houses two of its major cities, Louisville and Lexington. It is a land with diverse environments and abundant resources, including the world's longest cave system, Mammoth Cave National Park, the greatest length of navigable waterways and streams in the contiguous United States, and the two largest man-made lakes east of the Mississippi River.
Kentucky is also known for horse racing, bourbon distilleries, moonshine, coal, the My Old Kentucky Home historic national park, automobile manufacturing, tobacco, bluegrass music, college basketball, and Kentucky Fried Chicken.
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Janet Waldo (born February 4, 1924) is an American actress and voice artist with a career encompassing radio, television, animation and live-action films. She is best known in animation for voicing Judy Jetson, Penelope Pitstop and Josie McCoy in Josie and the Pussycats. She was equally famed for radio's Meet Corliss Archer, a title role with which she was so identified that she was drawn into the comic book adaptation.
Waldo appeared in several dozen films in uncredited bit parts and small roles, although she was the leading lady in three Westerns, two of them starring Tim Holt. Her big break came in radio with a part on Cecil B. DeMille's Lux Radio Theater. In her radio career, she lent her voice to many programs, including Edward G. Robinson's Big Town, The Eddie Bracken Show, Favorite Story, Four-Star Playhouse, The Gallant Heart, One Man's Family, Sears Radio Theater and Stars over Hollywood. She co-starred with Jimmy Lydon in the CBS situation comedy Young Love (1949--50), and she had recurring roles on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (as teenager Emmy Lou), The Red Skelton Show and People Are Funny.
However, it was her eight-year run starring as teenager Corliss Archer on CBS's Meet Corliss Archer that left a lasting impression, even though Shirley Temple starred in the film adaptations, Kiss and Tell and A Kiss for Corliss. The radio program was the CBS answer to NBC's popular A Date with Judy. Despite the long run of Meet Corliss Archer, less than 24 episodes are known to exist. Waldo later turned down the offer to portray Corliss in a television adaptation.
In 1948 the Meet Corliss Archer comic book, using Waldo's likeness, published by Fox Feature Syndicate, appeared for a run of three issues from March to July 1948, using the original scripts. The same year, Waldo married playwright Robert Edwin Lee, the writing partner of Jerome Lawrence. The couple had two children, and remained married until his death in 1994.
Waldo made a rare on-screen television appearance when she appeared as Peggy, a teen smitten with Ricky Ricardo on a 1952 episode of I Love Lucy titled The Young Fans with Richard Crenna. Ten years later, Waldo again worked with Lucille Ball, this time playing Lucy Carmichael's sister, Marge, on The Lucy Show. That episode, Lucy's Sister Pays A Visit also featured actor Peter Marshall. She also appeared on an episode of The Andy Griffith Show as Amanda. In addition, Waldo reprised the role of Emmy Lou for some early TV episodes of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. Later, she was the female lead opposite Anthony Franciosa in the short-lived sitcom Valentine's Day (1964).
Shirley Mitchell (born November 4, 1919) is an American film and television actress.
After moving to Chicago, she appeared in the network broadcast of The First Nighter and played small parts in various soap operas including The Story of Mary Marlin and The Road of Life. After moving to Los Angeles, she played opposite Joan Davis in The Sealtest Village Store. She also starred as Louella in The Life of Riley and joined the cast of Fibber McGee and Molly as Alice Darling in 1943. Her most prominent radio role was that of the charismatic Southern belle Leila Ransom on The Great Gildersleeve radio show beginning in September 1942. In 1953, Shirley joined the cast of I Love Lucy playing the part of Lucy Ricardo's friend Marion Strong. As of 2012, she is the only recurring adult cast member still living following the deaths of Doris Singleton in 2012 and Peggy Rea in 2011. In 1962, she played Mrs. Colton on the CBS-TV comedy series Pete and Gladys, and between 1965--1967, she appeared as neighbor Marge Thornton on NBC-TVs Please Don't Eat the Daisies. In the same year she appeared in Episode 13, Season 2 of The Dick Van Dyke Show when she played Shirley Rogers opposite Bob Crane as Harry Rogers in Somebody Has to Play Cleopatra. In 1963, she appeared on the television program The Beverly Hillbillies as Opal Clampett (the wife of Jake Clampett, an out-of-work actor). In 1966, she appeared in Green Acres as a nurse and as Oliver's old friend Wanda. Between 1967 and 1968, she portrayed Kate Bradley's cousin Mae Belle Jennings on Petticoat Junction. In 1968, she appeared in the Season 1 finale of The Doris Day Show as Mrs. Loomis, a woman who accuses Billy of stealing $5.00 from her purse after she dropped it.
In 1972, she was the voice of Laurie Holiday on the Hanna-Barbera cartoon series, The Roman Holidays.
In 1994, Mitchell voiced the Sneetches, cousins, Thidwick's mother and Sue the Second Fish in Storybook Weaver and later in 2004, deluxe version in Storybook Weaver Deluxe.
In 2012, she voiced her guest star as Betty White in MAD episode, Betty White & the Huntsman / Ancient Greek Mythbusters.
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Howard Allan Stern is an American radio and television personality, producer, author, actor, and photographer. He is best known for his radio show The Howard Stern Show, which gained popularity when it was nationally syndicated on terrestrial radio from 1986 to 2005. Stern has broadcast on Sirius XM Radio since 2006. Stern first wished to be on the radio at five years of age. He landed his first radio jobs while at Boston University. From 1976 to 1982, Stern developed his on-air personality through morning positions at WRNW in Briarcliff Manor, New York, WCCC in Hartford, Connecticut, WWWW in Detroit, Michigan, and WWDC in Washington, D.C. Stern worked afternoons at WNBC in New York City from 1982 until his firing in 1985. In 1985, Stern began a 20-year run at WXRK in New York City; his morning show entered syndication in 1986 and aired in 60 markets and attracted 20 million listeners at its peak. Stern won numerous industry awards, including Billboard’s Nationally Syndicated Air Per...
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00:03:27: Early life
00:08:52: 1976–1981: WRNW, WCCC, and WWWW
00:14:42: 1981–1985: WWDC and WNBC
00:21:49: 1985–1993: WXRK and early television and video projects
00:29:00: 1993–1994: Private Parts and run for Governor of New York
00:35:31: 1995–1997: Miss America and Private Parts film
00:41:28: 1998–2004: Television and film projects
00:48:20: 2004–2010: Signing with Sirius and terrestrial radio departure
00:52:51: 2010–present: Sirius contract renewals and America's Got Talent
00:56:22: FCC fines
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