"aired on Australian television in 1963. Playwright Jim Knable adapted the play into ""Destiny and the Little Man,"" which was given a world premiere production as part of ""Nightcap Riot: Mombucha"" in New York City in January and February 2016. The production was directed by Bruce Levitt of Cornell University. The Man of Destiny The Man of Destiny is an 1897 play by George Bernard Shaw, set in Italy during the early career of Napoleon. It was published as a part of ""Plays Pleasant"", which also included ""Arms and the Man"", ""Candida"" and ""You Never Can Tell."" Shaw titled the"
"George Bernard Shaw wrote ""The Man of Destiny"" (1897), based on events during the reign of Emperor Napoleon I of France (1769–1821). In the one-act play, General Napoleon Bonaparte has beaten the Austrians during the First Italian campaign at the Battle of Lodi (1796). Having recently married Joséphine de Beauharnais, he intercepts a letter meant to betray his wife's attachment to his friend, Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras (1755–1829), main executive leader of the Directory regime (1795–1799). Another play on Bonaparte includes Richmond Sheffield Dement's ""Napoleon"" (1893). Herbert Trench wrote his own ""Napoleon"" (1919). Percy MacKaye wrote ""Jeanne"
"Fate of a Man Fate of a Man (, translit. Sudba Cheloveka), also released as A Man's Destiny and Destiny of a Man is a 1959 Soviet film adaptation of the novel by Mikhail Sholokhov, and also the directorial debut of Sergei Bondarchuk. In the year of its release it won the Grand Prize at the 1st Moscow International Film Festival; Bondarchuk would win again for the first part of his colossal adaption of Tolstoy's ""War and Peace"", titled ""Andrei Bolkonsky"", six years later. The film begins in the Soviet Union in spring of 1946, as truck driver Andrei Sokolov"
"Mr. Destiny Mr. Destiny is a 1990 fantasy comedy film starring James Belushi. Other actors in this film included Linda Hamilton, Michael Caine, Jon Lovitz, Courteney Cox, and Rene Russo. The story begins on ""the strangest day"" of Larry Burrows' (James Belushi) life (his 35th birthday) consisting of a series of comic and dramatic misadventures. Larry, who blames all of his life's problems on the fact that he struck out during a key moment of his state high school baseball championship game on his 15th birthday, wishes he had done things differently. His wish is granted by a guardian angel-like"
"Ferenc Deák Ferenc Deák de Kehida (archaically English: Francis Deak, ; 17 October 180328 January 1876) was a Hungarian statesman and Minister of Justice. He was known as ""The Wise Man of the Nation"". Born in Söjtör in the county of Zala, in south-western Hungary, Deák belonged to an ancient noble family. His father was Ferenc Deák de Kehida (1761-1808), jurist, landowner, chief magistrate of the district (""főszolgabíró"") of Kapornak. His mother was the noble lady Erzsébet Sibrik de Szarvaskend et Óvár (1768-1803). He studied law, and became successively an advocate and notary. He first went into politics in 1833"
"Jerry Lewis Joseph Levitch (March 16, 1926 – August 20, 2017), known worldwide as Jerry Lewis, was an American comedian, director, actor, producer, singer, screenwriter and humanitarian, whose career spanned eight decades and was nicknamed ""The King of Comedy"". He was known for his partnership with Dean Martin as the groundbreaking act of Martin and Lewis. Lewis went on to star in, write, produce and direct many motion pictures, such as ""The Delicate Delinquent"", ""The Sad Sack"", ""Rock-A-Bye Baby"", ""The Geisha Boy"", ""Don't Give Up The Ship"", ""Visit to a Small Planet"", ""Cinderfella"", ""The Bellboy"", ""The Ladies' Man"", ""The Errand"
"of Fame. It was dedicated on February 8, 1960. Zachary Scott Zachary Scott (February 21, 1914 – October 3, 1965) was an American actor, most notable for his roles as villains and ""mystery men"". Born in Austin, Texas, he was of Greek descent; his surname was Skotidis. His grandfather had been a very successful cattle rancher, and Scott was a distant cousin of George Washington. Scott intended to be a doctor like his father, Zachary Scott Sr. (1880–1964), but after attending the University of Texas at Austin, he dropped out at age 19 and worked on a freighter that took"
"The Man of the Crowd ""The Man of the Crowd"" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe about a nameless narrator following a man through a crowded London. It was first published in 1840. The story is introduced with the epigraph """"Ce grand malheur, de ne pouvoir être seul"""" — a quote taken from ""The Characters of Man"" by Jean de La Bruyère. It translates to ""This great misfortune, of not being able to be alone"". This same quote is used in Poe's earliest tale, ""Metzengerstein"". After an unnamed illness, the unnamed narrator sits in an unnamed"
"Andrew Carnegie Andrew Carnegie ( , but commonly or ; November 25, 1835August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist, business magnate, and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and is often identified as one of the richest people (and richest Americans) in history. He became a leading philanthropist in the United States and in the British Empire. During the last 18 years of his life, he gave away about $350 million to charities, foundations, and universitiesalmost 90 percent of his fortune. His 1889 article proclaiming ""The Gospel of Wealth"" called on"
"Lon Chaney Leonidas Frank ""Lon"" Chaney (April 1, 1883 – August 26, 1930) was an American stage and film actor, make-up artist, director and screenwriter. He is regarded as one of the most versatile and powerful actors of early cinema, renowned for his characterizations of tortured, often grotesque and afflicted characters, and his groundbreaking artistry with makeup. Chaney was known for his starring roles in such silent horror films as ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"" (1923) and ""The Phantom of the Opera"" (1925). His ability to transform himself using makeup techniques he developed earned him the nickname ""The Man of"
"The Story of Mankind (film) The Story of Mankind is a 1957 American fantasy film, very loosely based on the nonfiction book ""The Story of Mankind"" (1921) by Hendrik Willem van Loon. The film was directed and co–produced by Irwin Allen and released by Warner Bros. Scientists have developed a weapon, called the ""Super H-bomb"", which if detonated will wipe out the human race entirely. A ""High Tribunal"" in ""The Great Court of Outer Space"" is called upon to decide whether divine intervention should be allowed to stop the bomb's detonation. The devil (Vincent Price), who goes by the name"
"Dean Martin Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti; June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995), was an Italian-American singer, actor, comedian, and producer. One of the most popular and enduring American entertainers of the mid-20th century, Martin was nicknamed ""The King of Cool"" for his seemingly effortless charisma and self-assurance. He and Jerry Lewis formed the immensely popular comedy duo Martin and Lewis, with Martin serving as the straight man to Lewis' slapstick hijinks. A member of the ""Rat Pack"", Martin went on to become a star of concert stages, nightclubs, audio recordings, motion pictures, and television. Martin was the"
"Martin. Dean Martin Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti; June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995), was an Italian-American singer, actor, comedian, and producer. One of the most popular and enduring American entertainers of the mid-20th century, Martin was nicknamed ""The King of Cool"" for his seemingly effortless charisma and self-assurance. He and Jerry Lewis formed the immensely popular comedy duo Martin and Lewis, with Martin serving as the straight man to Lewis' slapstick hijinks. A member of the ""Rat Pack"", Martin went on to become a star of concert stages, nightclubs, audio recordings, motion pictures, and television. Martin was"
"Jack Dempsey William Harrison ""Jack"" Dempsey (June 24, 1895 – May 31, 1983), nicknamed ""Kid Blackie"" and ""The Manassa Mauler"", was an American professional boxer who competed from 1914 to 1927, and reigned as the world heavyweight champion from 1919 to 1926. A cultural icon of the 1920s, Dempsey's aggressive fighting style and exceptional punching power made him one of the most popular boxers in history. Many of his fights set financial and attendance records, including the first million-dollar gate. Dempsey is ranked tenth on ""The Ring"" magazine's list of all-time heavyweights and seventh among its Top 100 Greatest Punchers,"
"Angeles. For his contributions to the film industry, Baggot received a motion pictures star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960. His star is located at 6312 Hollywood Boulevard. King Baggot William King Baggot (November 7, 1879 – July 11, 1948) was an American actor, film director and screenwriter. He was an internationally famous movie star of the silent film era. The first individually publicized leading man in America, Baggot was referred to as ""King of the Movies,"" ""The Most Photographed Man in the World"" and ""The Man Whose Face Is As Familiar As The Man In The Moon."""
"Simón Iturri Patiño Simón Iturri Patiño (Santiváñez, 1 June 1862 – Buenos Aires, 20 April 1947) was a Bolivian industrialist who was among the world's wealthiest people at the time of his death. With a fortune built from ownership of a majority of the tin industry in Bolivia, Patiño was nicknamed ""The Andean Rockefeller"". During World War II, Patiño was believed to be one of the five wealthiest men in the world. Patiño's biographers are not in agreement on the details of his early life. Many wrote that he was a cholo, with a mixed Quechua and Spanish heritage, and"
"Search for Destiny or the Twenty Seventh Theorem of Ethics Search for Destiny, or the Twenty Seventh Theorem of Ethics () — is a 1994 science fiction novel by Boris Strugatsky (under the pseudonym S. Vititsky), covering the life of a fictional Soviet citizen Krasnogorov with light and bitter truth about that time and including the long chapter ""A Happy Boy"" about his childhood in sieged Leningrad. The last part depicts him as a ruler in future Russia. At one point Krasnogorov realizes that he survived numerous situations, which inevitably had to result in his death. This causes him to"
"Frane Selak Frane Selak (born June 14, 1929) is a Croatian man who has allegedly escaped death seven times, and afterward won the lottery in 2003, prompting journalists to dub him ""the world's luckiest man"", and ""world's luckiest unluckiest man"". Selak's brushes with death started in January 1962 when he was riding a train through a cold, rainy canyon and the train flipped off the tracks and crashed in a river. Someone pulled Selak to safety, while 17 other unfortunate passengers drowned. Selak suffered a broken arm and hypothermia. The next year, during his first and only plane ride, he"
"mankind,"" while Mother Teresa wrote him a letter, stating that God would reward him and his family's efforts a ""hundredfold."" The character of the 2005 film ""Lord of War"" was Simeon Weisz, a fictional international arms trader during the 1980s and 1990s. The character, an Israeli, was a composite of at least five real life arms dealers, including Soghanalian. Soghanalian died on October 5, 2011 at the Hialeah Hospital in Hialeah, Florida. Sarkis Soghanalian Sarkis Garabet Soghanalian (; February 6, 1929 – October 5, 2011), nicknamed Merchant of Death, was an Armenian-Lebanese international private arms dealer who gained fame for"
"the Chapel of the Pines Crematory, Los Angeles. William Desmond (actor) William Desmond (January 23, 1878 – November 3, 1949) was an Irish-born American actor. He appeared in 205 films between 1915 and 1948. He was nicknamed ""The King of the Silent Serials."" Born William Mannion in Dublin, Ireland, he was raised in New York City. He later changed his surname to a stage name. He started out in vaudeville and the legitimate stage before making his film debut. In 1919 he married his co-star Mary McIvor. On November 3, 1949, Desmond died at age 71 of a heart attack"
"Aleister Crowley Aleister Crowley (; born Edward Alexander Crowley; 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer. He founded the religion of Thelema, identifying himself as the prophet entrusted with guiding humanity into the Æon of Horus in the early 20th century. A prolific writer, he published widely over the course of his life. Born to a wealthy family in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, Crowley rejected his parent's fundamentalist Christian Plymouth Brethren faith to pursue an interest in Western esotericism. He was educated at the University of Cambridge, where he"
"the grounds. He sold it in 1992. David Bowie made reference to Crowley in the lyrics of his song ""Quicksand"" (1971), while Ozzy Osbourne and his lyricist Bob Daisley wrote a song titled ""Mr. Crowley"" (1980). Crowley began to receive scholarly attention from academics in the late 1990s. Aleister Crowley Aleister Crowley (; born Edward Alexander Crowley; 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer. He founded the religion of Thelema, identifying himself as the prophet entrusted with guiding humanity into the Æon of Horus in the early 20th century."
"Richard DeVos Richard Marvin DeVos Sr. (March 4, 1926 – September 6, 2018) was an American billionaire businessman, co-founder of Amway with Jay Van Andel (company restructured as Alticor in 2000), and owner of the Orlando Magic basketball team. In 2012, ""Forbes"" magazine listed him as the 60th-wealthiest person in the United States, and the 205th-richest in the world, with an estimated net worth of $5.1 billion. DeVos was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the son of Ethel Ruth (Dekker) and Simon Cornelius DeVos, who worked in the electrical business. He was educated at Calvin College and was a member"
"Bernhard Müller Bernhard Müller, known as Count de Leon (born March 21, 1788, Kostheim, Germany - died August 29, 1834, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana), was a German Christian mystic and alchemist of uncertain origins. Müller wrote to the Harmony Society (and other communes in the United States as well as numerous leaders in Europe) in 1829 proclaiming himself to be the ""Lion of Judah"" and a prophet in possession of the Philosopher's stone. As well as giving himself numerous fictitious names and titles, like Count de Leon, Archduke Maximilian von Este, and Proli, he claimed that he and his followers were"
"Nostradamus – The Fate of Man Nostradamus – The Fate of Man is the twelfth studio album by the Dutch progressive rock band Kayak. The album charted only for three weeks. This concept-album tells the story of French doctor and seer Nostradamus, but from the viewpoint of a Flemish monk, Yves de Lessines. The (unproven) theory behind this is that Nostradamus was not the writer of his famous ""Centuries"". These poems were in fact written 200 years earlier by De Lessines, and they were a secret code to find the treasures of the Knights Templar. On one of his journeys,"
"Anthony Zerbe Anthony Jared Zerbe (born May 20, 1936) is an American stage, film and Emmy-winning television actor. Notable film roles include the post-apocalyptic cult leader Matthias in ""The Omega Man"", a 1971 film adaptation of Richard Matheson's 1954 novel, ""I Am Legend""; as a corrupt gambler in ""Farewell, My Lovely""; as Abner Devereaux in ""Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park""; as villain Milton Krest in the James Bond film ""Licence to Kill""; Rosie in ""The Turning Point""; Roger Stuart in ""The Dead Zone""; Admiral Dougherty in """" and Councillor Hamann in ""The Matrix Reloaded"" and ""The Matrix Revolutions""."
"5. “Pathology of drives""(1952). Léopold Szondi Léopold Szondi ( ; March 11, 1893 – January 24, 1986) was a Hungarian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, psychopathologist and Professor of psychology. Founder of the concept of fate analysis. He is known for the psychological tool that bears his name, the Szondi test. The achievements of the scientist are: The Szondi test, Fate analysis and Fate psychology. Szondi was born in city of Nyitra (in present-day Slovakia) and raised in a German and Slovak-speaking Jewish family. The original name of the family was Sonnenschein. He was born as the twelfth child in his father's"
"on the street corner."" Davidoff saw Clarence 13X's black supremacist teachings as a way to instill confidence in young people. Knight states that Clarence 13X went from a ""'Harlem rowdy' to [a] legitimate community leader"", and Lindsay later cast Clarence 13X's role in the city as similar to that of Al Sharpton. Mattias Gardell of Uppsala University views Clarence 13X as a ""gifted philosopher"". Books Newspapers Clarence 13X Clarence Edward Smith (February 22, 1928 – June 13, 1969), better known by his assumed names Clarence 13X and Allah, was an American leader and founder of the Five-Percent Nation. He was"
"Omar Mukhtar ‘Omar al-Mukhṫār Muḥammad bin Farḥāṫ al-Manifī (; 20 August 1858 – 16 September 1931), called The Lion of the Desert, known among the colonial Italians as Matari of the Mnifa, was the leader of native resistance in Cyrenaica, currently Eastern Libya under the Senussids, against the Italian colonization of Libya. A teacher-turned-general, Omar was also a prominent figure of the Senussi movement, and he is considered the national hero of Libya and a symbol of resistance in the Arab and Islamic worlds. Beginning in 1911, he organised and, for nearly twenty years, led the Libyan resistance movement against"
"The Tragedy of Man The Tragedy of Man () is a play written by the Hungarian author Imre Madách. It was first published in 1861. The play is considered to be one of the major works of Hungarian literature and is one of the most often staged Hungarian plays today. Many lines have become common quotations in Hungary. The 1984 film ""The Annunciation"" (""Angyali üdvözlet"") was based on the play, as was the 2011 animated film ""The Tragedy of Man"". The main characters are Adam, Eve and Lucifer. As God creates the universe, Lucifer decries it as futile, stating that"
"Ganesh Man Singh Ganesh Man Singh (Nepali:गणेशमान सिंह) (November 9, 1915 – September 18, 1997) was the leader of the democratic movement of 1990 in Nepal. He is revered as the Father of Democracy and the Iron-man of Nepali Politics. He joined Praja Parishad to protest against the autocratic rule of the Ranas. Ganesh Man Singh was born on November 9, 1915 in Itum Bahal, Kathmandu. His father was Gyan Man Singh and mother Sanunani Shrestha Singh. His father died when he was young, so his grandfather, Ratna Man Singh (who was Badakaji in Rana regime), took care of him."
"and A. Freystedt, ""Studien zu Gottschalks Leben und Lehre"", in ""Zeitschrsft für Kirchengeschichte"" (1897), vol. xviii. Gottschalk of Orbais Gottschalk () of Orbais ( 808 – 30 October 867? AD) was a Saxon theologian, monk and poet who is best known for being an early advocate of the doctrine of two-fold predestination. From his friend Walahfrid Strabo, Gottschalk also received the nickname Fulgentius, after Fulgentius the Mythographer, whom he may have studied intensively. Gottschalk was born near Mainz, and was given to the monastic life (""oblatus"") from infancy by his parents. His father was a Saxon, Count Bern or Bernius."
"Djemal Pasha Ahmed Djemal Pasha (; 6 May 1872 – 21 July 1922), commonly known as Jamal Basha al-Saffah or Jamal Pasha the Bloodthirsty in the Arab world, was an Ottoman military leader and one-third of the military triumvirate known as the Three Pashas (also called the ""Three Dictators"") that ruled the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Djemal was the Minister of the Navy. Along with the other Three Pashas he was one of the main perpetrators of the Armenian genocide, the Greek genocide, and the Assyrian genocide. He was also the Mayor of Constantinople (today known as Istanbul)."