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Brothers Quay Stephen and Timothy Quay ( ; born June 17, 1947) are American identical twin brothers better known as the Brothers Quay or Quay Brothers. They are influential stop-motion animators. They are also the recipients of the 1998 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design for their work on the play "The Chairs".
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Alexandra Shiva Alexandra Elizabeth Shiva is an American film producer and director. "Bombay Eunuch" is her 2001 award-winning film, and in 2015 she showed "How to Dance in Ohio" at the Sundance Film Festival in the US Documentary Competition. Shiva also founded a production studio called Gidalya Pictures.
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Elaine Haxton Elaine Alys Haxton (1909–1999) was an Australian painter, printmaker, designer and commercial artist. Haxton was noted for both fine and commercial art - she was one of five women artists exhibited at the Australian Commercial and Industrial Artists Association (ACIAA)'s first Sydney exhibition in 1940, three years after the association's founding in 1937. She won the 1943 Sir John Sulman Prize for a mural at le Coq D'Or Restaurant, Sydney.
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List of Big Brother Australia housemates Since the start of Big Brother Australia in 2001 there have been a total of 211 housemates. There have been 9 winners of "Big Brother"; six men and three women. The youngest winner is Aleisha Lee Cowcher, who was 20 at the time of winning "Big Brother 7", and the oldest is Terri Munro, who was 52 when she won "Big Brother 8".
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Song Ong Siang Sir Ong-Siang Song () K.B.E., V.D., M.A., LL.M., was a lawyer and active citizen of the British Crown Colony of the Straits Settlements. He was a third-generation Straits Chinese or Peranakan Baba (Peranakan term for "man"), and the first ever Asian in Singapore to be knighted . Sir Song was noted for his worthy contributions to the development of the Singapore civil society, and was held in the highest esteem throughout the Colony.
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Gayatri Sankaran Dr. Gayatri Sankaran is a visually challenged Indian Carnatic musician and vocalist by nature specialising in Carnatic vocals and violin performances. She is a recipient of the Kalaimamani award from "Tamil Nadu Eyal Isai Nataka Manram", a unit of the Directorate of Art and Culture, Government of Tamil Nadu. The Government of India honoured her in 2006, with the award of Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award for his contributions to music, making her the first visually impaired woman to receive the award.
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Paul Russell (novelist) Paul Russell is an American novelist, poet and short story writer. He is a two-time winner of the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT fiction, in 2000 for "The Coming Storm" and in 2012 for "The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov". "The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov" is a fictionalized portrayal of a real person, the gay younger brother of Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov, about whom very little concrete biographical information is known.
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Bharati Shivaji Bharati Shivaji is an Indian classical dancer of Mohiniyattom, choreographer and author, known for her contributions to the art form by way of performance, research and propagation. She is the founder of " Center for Mohiniyattam", a dance academy promoting Mohiniyattom and the co-author of two books, "Art of Mohiniyattom" and "Mohiniyattom". She is a recipient of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award and Sahitya Kala Parishad Samman. The Government of India awarded her the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2004, for her contributions to Indian classical dance.
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Anand (1986 film) Anand is a 1986 Indian Kannada film directed by Singeetham Srinivasa Rao. The film starred Shivrajkumar and Sudha Rani in lead roles with both making their debuts. The film went on to be a huge success running for 38 weeks. Shivarajkumar was introduced as a dancer in this film. This was his first of the three consecutive hits at the box-office on debut which gave him the title "Hat-trick Hero". He once said, "I can never forget "Anand", my first film which made me an actor. Singeetam was just explaining the scene to us and was telling this is what the work I expect from you people. He was bringing out such better performance from all of us."
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B. Shiva Rao Benegal Shiva Rao (26 February 1891 – 15 December 1975) was an Indian journalist and politician.He was a member of the Constituent Assembly of India and an elected representative of the South Kanara constituency in the first Lok Sabha. He was the correspondent of "The Hindu" and then of the "Manchester Guardian". He was also a member of the Rajya Sabha from 1957 - 1960 and a recipient of the civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan.
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Priyanka Chopra Priyanka Chopra (] ; born 18 July 1982) is an Indian actress, singer, film producer, philanthropist, and the winner of the Miss World 2000 pageant. One of India's highest-paid and most popular celebrities, Chopra has received numerous awards, including a National Film Award and five Filmfare Awards. In 2016, the Government of India honoured her with the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, and "Time" magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
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Navketan Films Navketan Films is a film production house based in Mumbai, India. Started in 1949 by actor-director and producer Dev Anand and his elder brother Chetan Anand, whose debut film, "Neecha Nagar", received the Palme d'Or (Best Film) award, at the first ever Cannes Film Festival in 1946. Younger brother Vijay Anand, also directed numerous films for the company, like "Guide" (1965), "Jewel Thief" (1967) and "Johny Mera Naam" (1970). Chetan and Vijay parted ways with company later and today Dev's son Suneil Anand is currently heading the production house.
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Anand Thakore Anand Thakore (born 17 February 1971) is a poet and Hindustani classical vocalist. "Elephant Bathing" (Poetrywala, 2012), "Mughal Sequence" (Poetrywala, 2012) and "Waking in December" (Harbour Line, 2001) are his three collections of verse. He received training in Hindustani vocal music for many years from Satyasheel Deshpande and Pandit Baban Haldankar of the Agra Gharana. He is the founder of "Harbour Line", a publishing collective, and "Kshitij", an interactive forum for musicians.
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The Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best The Brooklyn Brothers Beat The Best is a 2011 independent comedy film, written and directed by Ryan O'Nan and starring Ryan O'Nan, Michael Weston and Arielle Kebbel.
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Vayalar Award The Vayalar Award is given for the best literary work in Malayalam. The award was instituted in 1977 by the Vayalar Ramavarma Memorial Trust in memory of the poet and lyricist Vayalar Ramavarma (1928-1975). A sum of 25,000, a silver plate and certificate constitutes the award originally. Now it is raised to a sum of 1,00,000. It is presented each year on October 27, the death anniversary of Vayalar Ramavarma.
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Sydney Olivier, 1st Baron Olivier Sydney Haldane Olivier, 1st Baron Olivier, (16 April 1859 – 15 February 1943) was a British civil servant. A Fabian and a member of the Labour Party, he served as Governor of Jamaica and as Secretary of State for India in the first government of Ramsay MacDonald. He was the uncle of the actor Laurence Olivier.
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Eastern Quay Eastern Quay Apartments is in Royal Victoria Dock, East London
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Shivaram S. Shivaram (born 1938), popularly known simply as Shivaram or Shivaramanna, is an Indian actor, producer and director whose Kannada cinema career has spanned six decades. He has played roles including lead hero performances, character roles, comedic roles, as well as supporting parts. He teamed up with his elder brother, S. Ramanathan and produced several films under the name Rashi Brothers apart from directing "Hrudaya Sangama" in 1972. The brothers together produced few Bollywood films as well. As an actor, Shivaram has the distinction of working with many stalwart directors out of which his association with Puttanna Kanagal is much remembered.
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Savitri Khanolkar Savitri Khanolkar, born Eve Yvonne Maday de Maros, on July 20, 1913 – 1990 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. She was later known as Savitri Bai, the name she was given after she married an Indian, became a Hindu and took Indian nationality. She is the designer of India's highest gallantry award, the Param Vir Chakra.
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2012 Man Booker Prize The 2012 Booker Prize for Fiction was awarded on 16 October 2012. A longlist of twelve titles was announced on 25 July, and these were narrowed down to a shortlist of six titles, announced on 11 September. The jury was chaired by Sir Peter Stothard, editor of the "Times Literary Supplement", accompanied by literary critics Dinah Birch and Bharat Tandon, historian and biographer Amanda Foreman, and Dan Stevens, actor of "Downton Abbey" fame with a background English Literature studies. The jury was faced with the controversy of the 2011 jury, whose approach had been seen as overly populist. Whether or not as a response to this, the 2012 jury strongly emphasised the value of literary quality and linguistic innovation as criteria for inclusion.
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Ivy Shore Ivy Shore (14 January 1915 – 25 August 1999; known as Billie Shore; born Ivy Williams) was an Australian painter. Shore was student of tonal impressionist Graeme Inson, and also Inson's partner for the last 40 years of her life. She was the 1979 winner of the Portia Geach Memorial Award, Australia's richest art award for women artists only. Shore also won the Most Highly Commended award in the Portia Geach Memorial Award three times.
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Sher Shah (VC) Sher Shah Awan VC (14 February 1917 – 20 January 1945) was a British Indian Army soldier who received the Victoria Cross which is the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.