Was White Sands a reason Samuel L. Jackson was made prominent in culture?
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White Sands (film) White Sands is a 1992 crime film directed by Roger Donaldson and written by Daniel Pyne for Warner Bros. Starring Willem Dafoe, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Samuel L. Jackson and Mickey Rourke, the film is about a U.S. southwestern small-town sheriff who finds a body in the desert with a suitcase and $500,000. He impersonates the man and stumbles into an FBI investigation.
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Samuel L. Jackson Samuel Leroy Jackson (born December 21, 1948) is an American actor and film producer. He achieved prominence and critical acclaim in the early 1990s with films such as "Jungle Fever" (1991), "Patriot Games" (1992), "Amos & Andrew" (1993), "True Romance" (1993), "Jurassic Park" (1993) and his collaborations with director Quentin Tarantino including "Pulp Fiction" (1994), "Jackie Brown" (1997), "Django Unchained" (2012), and "The Hateful Eight" (2015). He is a highly prolific actor, having appeared in over 100 films, including "Die Hard with a Vengeance" (1995), "Unbreakable" (2000), "Shaft" (2000), "The 51st State" (2001), "Black Snake Moan" (2006), "Snakes on a Plane" (2006), and the "Star Wars" prequel trilogy (1999–2005), as well as the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Culture of North America The Culture of North America refers to the arts and other manifestations of human activities and achievements in North American and surrounding regions regarded collectively. The specifics are unknown, but between 40,000 and 16,500 years ago, the melting of the ice sheets formed in the Last Glacial Maximum allowed Paleo-Indian peoples to migrate into the North American continent, eventually diversifying and giving rise to such civilizations as the Aztec Empire or the Mound Builders, among others. However, due to the colonization of the americas by Europe, and along with mass immigration from European nations since the 17th century, North American culture saw an increasing amount of influence from Western culture, almost overwhelming the native peoples through genocide, displacement and cultural dominance. The resultant mix of Western and native customs would form what is now called North American culture.
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Cultural depictions of Stonehenge The Prehistoric landmark of Stonehenge is distinctive and famous enough to have become frequently referenced in popular culture. The landmark has become a symbol of British culture and history, owing to its distinctiveness and its long history of being portrayed in art, literature and advertising campaigns, as well as modern media formats, such as television, film and computer games. This is in part because the arrangement of standing stones topped with lintels is unique, not just in the British Isles, but in the world.
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Michael Jackson: The Life of an Icon Michael Jackson: The Life of an Icon is a documentary film about pop singer Michael Jackson produced by his friend, David Gest. The film features footage of the beginning of The Jackson 5, Jackson's solo career and the child molestation accusations made against him. It also has interviews with Jackson's mother, Katherine, and siblings, Tito and Rebbie Jackson, as well as other artists—who were inspired by him and had met him before his death—including Whitney Houston, Smokey Robinson and Dionne Warwick. The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on November 2, 2011.
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Samuel Dunbar Samuel Ross Dunbar, Sr., known as Sammy Dunbar (November 5, 1931 – August 31, 2014), was a businessman, landowner, and civic figure in his native Alexandria, Louisiana.
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Julian T. Jackson Julian Timothy Jackson (born 10 April 1954) is a prominent British historian. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Historical Society. Professor of History at Queen Mary, University of London Julian Jackson is one of the leading authorities on twentieth-century France.
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Cultural impact of Michael Jackson American entertainer Michael Jackson, who is known as the "King of Pop", is considered one of the most successful and influential entertainers of all time. He had an unparalleled influence all over the world through his musical, dance, fashion and humanitarian contributions.
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David White (geologist) Charles David White (July 1, 1862 – February 7, 1935), who normally went by his middle name, was an American geologist, born in Palmyra, New York.
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White Sands, Alberta White Sands is a summer village in Alberta, Canada. It is located on the southeast shore of Buffalo Lake, northwest from the Town of Stettler and east of the Summer Village of Rochon Sands and Rochon Sands Provincial Park.
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Samuel W. Richards Samuel Whitney Richards ((1824--) 09, 1824 – 26, 1909(1909--) (aged (1909)-(1824)-((11)<(08)or(11)==(08)and(26)<(09)) ) ) was a religious and political leader in 19th-century Utah Territory and in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
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Frontier myth The frontier myth or myth of the West is a term given to the popular romanticization of the Wild West frontier.
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Samuel Palmer Samuel Palmer (27 January 1805 – 24 May 1881) was a British landscape painter, etcher and printmaker. He was also a prolific writer. Palmer was a key figure in Romanticism in Britain and produced visionary pastoral paintings.
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Ben Lilly Benjamin Vernon Lilly or Ben Lilly (1856 – December 17, 1936), nicknamed Ol' Lilly, was a notorious big game hunter, houndsman and mountain man of the late American Old West. He remains famous for hunting down large numbers of grizzly, cougars and black bears. A mix between a transcendentalist spirit and an ardent Christian, he is described as an unfathomable Southern wild character. He was a stern practitioner of simple living and outdoor freedom, roamed and hunted from Louisiana to Arizona and from Idaho to as far south as Chihuahua and Durango, Mexico, and was a subject of American folktales. He guided oiler W. H. McFadden and President Theodore Roosevelt in hunting expeditions, whom he intrigued and who wrote about him. He was arguably the most prolific hunter of apex predators in the history of North American hunting and also the last active mountain man of the historical American Southwest. He was not a conservationist but made important contributions of fauna specimens and naturalistic observations to American institutions and museums. He was a contradictory character and his exploits have been consistently exaggerated to folktale proportions, and most records are oral, bona-fide, Americana transcripts.
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White Earth (film) White Earth is a 2014 documentary film by J. Christian Jensen about new arrivals in White Earth, North Dakota who have moved there to seek work in the North Dakota oil boom. The film explores life in the oil boom through the eyes of four children and an immigrant mother. "White Earth" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) at the 87th Academy Awards.
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Samuel Black Samuel Black (May 3, 1780 – February 8, 1841) British fur trader and explorer, Clerk in the New North Nest Company (XYC) and Wintering Partner in the North West Company (NWC), and later Clerk, Chief Trader, and Chief factor in the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) for the Columbia District. In 1824, he explored the Finlay River and its tributaries in present-day north-central British Columbia, including the Muskwa, Omineca and Stikine for the HBC, his journals later published by the Hudson's Bay Record Society in 1955.
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J. Samuel Walker J. Samuel Walker is an American historian and author based in Maryland, most notable for his research and writing on the nuclear age, both weaponry and atomic energy. Several of his books have earned broad-based critical acclaim and advanced novel viewpoints. Despite affiliation with government and the nuclear industry, he is cited by the peace movement
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Ashley Jackson (historian) Ashley Jackson is a professor of imperial and military history in the Defence Studies Department at King's College London and a visiting fellow at Kellogg College, University of Oxford. Jackson is a specialist in the history of the British Empire. He argued in 2013 that historians have even extended to a third and fourth empire:
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Mount Jackson (Colorado) Mount Jackson is a high and prominent mountain summit in the northern Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 13676 ft thirteener is located in the Holy Cross Wilderness of White River National Forest, 14.5 km west-southwest (bearing 247°) of the Town of Minturn in Eagle County, Colorado, United States. The mountain was named in honor of photographer William Henry Jackson, who accompanied the Hayden Survey in the 1870s.
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Spanish Lake community The Spanish Lake Community is a small rural village in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. The community got its name during the settlement of the Province of Tejas in the early 18th century. The Spanish government recognized the need to both Christianize and civilize the Indians of the province and the need to keep the French from encroaching on Spanish territory. To accomplish this they implemented a three-fold strategy. First was to establish a series of missions. Second was to provide a military presence through the establishment of the Presidio and third was the civil settlement of the territory. One such place was Los Adaes, located near what is today Robeline, Louisiana. Los Adaes served as the home to over 400 Spanish citizens, including many families, some soldiers, and a few priests, as well as converted Indians, French traders, escaped slaves, and other frontier denizens. Surnames such as Flores, Rodrigues, Moore (Mora), Sanchez, Ocon, Niette(Nieto) and Corrales and are all still known to the area today. Logjams formed in Red River of the South or Red River as early as 1100-1200 AD. Its lower end was 10 miles north of Natchitoches in 1806 and stretched nearly 300 miles up the river. The results of the logjams created many lakes in the area, Spanish Lake, Black Lake, Bistineau Lake and Cross Lake. In 1832 $20,000 was appropriated to begin work on the logjam. On April 11, 1833 Captain Henry M. Shreve of the Army Engineers began work on the logjam. By late 1836 the river was cleared, however the river continued to have logjams form and had to be continuously cleared until the 1940s when the building of the Dennison Dam brought an end to the logjams on the lower Red River. Spanish Lake drained off and became farmland. The people of Spanish Lake Community still live on the ridges of land around the lake.
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White Amazonian Indians White Amazonian Indians or White Indians is a term first applied to sightings or encounters with mysterious white skinned natives of the Amazon Rainforest from the 16th century by Spanish missionaries. These encounters and tales sparked Percy Fawcett's journey into the uncharted jungle of the Amazonian Mato Grosso region. Various theories since the early 20th century have been proposed regarding the documented sightings or encounters.
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Samuel Ealy Johnson Sr. Samuel Ealy Johnson Sr. (November 12, 1838 – February 25, 1915) was an American businessman, politician, cattleman, and soldier. He was the paternal grandfather of future US President Lyndon B. Johnson.