Independent Television News (ITN) - Independent Television News (ITN) ITN logo, 1970s-90s Independent Television News (ITN) the main supplier of news broadcasts to three British broadcasting networks, ITV, Channel 4 and Five. ITN was founded in 1955 as part of the British commercial TV network ITV. It has provided the main national news bulletins for the ITV network since that date, though it has no role in the regional coverage provided for each individual station within ITV, which comes from each station's own newsroom. With the expansion of TV channels in the United Kingdom, it also now provides national bulletins for Channel 4 and Five. In August 2000, the organisation launched its own 24 hour news channel which is broadcast on satellite, cable and digital terrestrial. It also began its own 'World.
Iraq disarmament crisis timeline 2001-2003 - Iraq disarmament crisis timeline 2001-2003 Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Timeline of events related to the Iraq disarmament crisis 1.1 Continued from Iraq disarmament crisis timeline 1997-2000 2 2003 2.2 Continued at 2003 Iraq war timeline Timeline of events related to the Iraq disarmament crisis Continued from Iraq disarmament crisis timeline 1997-2000 February, 2001 British and US forces carry out bombing raids to try and disable Iraq's air defense network. May 14, 2002 The UN Security Council passes resolution 1409, which reaffirms UN members commitment to maintaining the territorial integrity of Iraq. July 5, 2002 Iraq once again rejects new UN weapons inspections proposals. August, 2002 According to U.S. Intelligence, China, with help from France and Syria, secretly sells Iraq the prohibited chemical hydroxy terminated polybutadiene, or HTPB, which is.
Ulster Television - Ulster Television Ulster Television plc is the ITV contractor for Northern Ireland. It is one only two stand-alone ITV contractors left, the others forming groupings such as Carlton, Granada, and SMG. Political sensitivities led to the channel abbreviating its name to UTV, as the use of word 'Ulster ' is controversial among Northern Ireland's two communities. Since June 4, 1993, Ulster Television has been known on-air as simply UTV, and off air is now referred to as UTV Group. UTV's main programmes are the nightly news UTV Live, current affairs programme Insight, the talkshow Kelly, School Around the Corner, and Lesser Spotted Ulster. UTV is also available in the Republic of Ireland, either on cable and MMDS systems, or directly in border areas. This puts UTV in.
Global Television Network - Global Television Network The Global Television Network (more commonly called Global) is a major English-language television network in Canada. It first signed on in 1974 as an Ontario-only independent channel, but was soon purchased by Izzy Asper, a Manitoba politician-turned-broadcaster who already owned a station in Winnipeg through his company CanWest. Asper went on to acquire additional regional broadcast networks in Saskatchewan, British Columbia and the Maritimes. Although Asper's regional networks always purchased programming rights as a collective, they did not have common branding until 1997, when the Global name was extended across the country. In this same year, Global broadcast in Quebec for the first time, when it acquired the assets of a former CBC affiliate in Quebec City, CKMI-TV, after the CBC took over CKMI's.
Granada Television - Granada Television Granada TV logo, 1980s Granada Television is the British Independent Television (commercial television) contractor for the "North of England" weekday franchise from 1954 (started broadcasting in 1956) until 1968, and for the "Northwest England" all-week franchise since 1968. Granada is the only one of the original four ITA franchisees from 1954 which survived as a franchise holder into the twenty-first century. In the 1930s, Cecil and Sydney Bernstein created a cinema chain in the south of England which, in the contemporary fashion for "exotic" names, they called Granada Theatres Limited. Some twenty years later like e.g. the Associated British Picture Corporation, with the dawn of commercial television the Bernsteins decided to be involved in the new industry which was a great competitor to the cinema.
Grammy Awards of 2001 - Grammy Awards of 2001 The 43rd Grammy Awards were held in 2001. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year. Record of the Year Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois (producers), Steve Lillywhite, Richard Rainey (engineers/mixers) & U2 for "Beautiful Day" Album of the Year Walter Becker, Donald Fagen (producers), Phil Burnett, Roger Nichols, Elliot Scheiner (engineers/mixers) & Steely Dan for Two Against Nature Song of the Year U2 for "Beautiful Day" Best New Artist Shelby Lynne Alternative Best Alternative Music Album Nigel Godrich (producer & engineer/mixer) & Radiohead (producer & artist) for Kid A Blues Best Traditional Blues Album Simon Climie (producer), Alan Douglas (engineer), Eric Clapton (producer & artist) & B. B. King for Riding With the King Best Contemporary Blues Album Tony Braunagel (producer), Joe McGrath,.
Undressed (television) - Undressed (television) Undressed is a television show on MTV. First aired in 1999, it is an anthology series that follow the sexual and relationship experiences of young people. Features both heterosexual and homosexual stories, as well as high school students and college students. GLAAD Nominations 2000 - GLAAD Media Award - Nominated for Outstanding Drama Series 2001 - GLAAD Media Award - Nominated for Outstanding Drama Series 2001 - FILMLOOK Award - Teen Choice for Late Night Series 2002 - POP Award - Special Recognition for Original Series Undressed Seasons July 1999 - September 1999 February 2000 - March 2000 July 2000 - August 2000 January 2001 - March 2001 July 2001 - September 2001 June 2002 - September 2002.
Kate Beckinsale - is the daughter of the late Richard Beckinsale and Judy Loe, both British television actors. Her father died in 1979, at the age of 32 years. After finishing school in London, she began to act in a gradual way, thus following her parent's profession. In 1991 she played a role in a television film about World War II, which made her become widely known by the public in England. The film was also broadcast in America at the end of that year. Beckinsale then began studies of French and of Russian literature at Oxford University, in interviews she commented that she felt that the university background would be better for her than attending a school of performing arts. During her first year at Oxford, Beckinsale was offered a part in Kenneth.
Katie Couric - (born January 7, 1957) is a famous American television journalist. She was born in Arlington, Virginia. In 1975, Couric attended the University of Virginia, from where she graduated in 1979. She married Jay Monahan in 1989, but he passed away in 1998. Couric joined NBC news on the same year in which she got married to Monahan. She was fired from NBC soon, however, allegedly because the President of the network disapproved of her voice. Couric then took voice class. Couric began her career as a desk assistant for ABC news soon after graduating from college. In 1980, she went on to work for CNN, where she would become the producer of a two hour news show from Atlanta, Georgia. In 1984, she moved to NBC, where she worked as a.
Katherine Heigl - family in New Canaan, took a number of photographs of her niece, then aged 9 - in series of poses to advertise a hair care product she had invented. Upon returning to New York, with permission from Katherine's parents, she sent the photos to a number of modelling agencies. Within a few weeks Katherine had been signed to Wilhelmina, a renowned international modelling agency. Almost immediately, she made her debut in a magazine advertisement, and soon followed this with an inaugural television appearance in a national commercial for Cheerios breakfast cereal. Following a number of commercials and modeling assignments for Sears and Lord & Taylor, Katherine made her big-screen debut in "That Night" (1992), which starred Juliette Lewis and C. Thomas Howell. It was then that she realized that acting rather.
Kermit the Frog - appeared in 1955, in a five minute puppet show for WRC-TV Sam and Friends. The early Kermit was a sort of lizardy thing; Kermit's first appearance as a frog was in the television special Hey Cinderella in 1969, and he's been a frog ever since. Kermit made frequent appearances on Sesame Street, often as a news reporter interviewing nursery rhyme characters. One of his most memorable works was the song, "It's not easy being green". Kermit's song "Rainbow connection" was also a big hit from The Muppet Movie. In The Muppet Show television series, Kermit was frontman and the long-suffering stage manager of the fictional theatre show. He continually struggled to produce a quality program, for a sparse and disaffected audience. Kermit also appeared in several Muppet movies and spin-off series,.
Keith Green - American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) when he published, recorded and released the song "The Way I Used to Be". In his eary teens, with more than 50 original songs under his belt, Green was signed to Decca Records. Decca had plans to make Green a teen-idol, regularly getting the young man featured in fanzines like Teen Scene and on popular television shows like The Jack Benny Show and Steve Allen's show. Time Magazine called Green "a prepubescent dreamboat". By his mid teens, Green became heavily involved in drug use, eastern religion, astrology, and mysticism. Green converted to Christianity in the early 1970s. Green married his wife Melody in 1973. It was around this time that the newly married Green couple became friends with Bob Dylan, who attended the.
Khalil el-Moumni - politician Pim Fortuyn. Reportedly he had been banned from preaching in Morocco in 1991 on account of his fundamentalist opinions. On the 3 May, 2001, he appeared on the Dutch television program Nova to discuss the rising incidence of anti-homosexual violence by Moroccan youths. He said that "if the sickness of homosexuality spreads itself, everyone can become infected". "That's what we are afraid of... Who will still make children if men marry among themselves and women too?". Later, various sources reported statements from sermons of his that were published in Arabic in 1998. He said: "The western civilisation is a civilisation without morals. In the Netherlands it's permitted for homosexuals to marry each other. The Europeans stand lower than dogs and pigs". Forty-nine individuals and organizations filed official complaints about his.
King Edward VI Grammar School (Chelmsford) - dated March 24, 1551[1]. The school was moved to its present site in Broomfield Road in 1892[1]. Anthony Tuckwell, headmaster of KEGS from 1984 to 1999, is the author of a history of the school, entitled, 'That honourable and gentlemanlike House', a history of King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford, 1551-2001. As of 2003, the present headmaster is Dr. Michael Walker, who succeeded Mr. Tuckwell in 1999, having taught history at the school since 1989. Past pupils Lord Fowler, British Conservative politician; former Cabinet minister Mike Smith, British touring car driver and television presenter Nicholas Sommerlad, British journalist and husband of Sinéad O'Connor.
Kim Cattrall - fame came in 1981, when she participated in the first Porky's movie. Then, she participated in the first Police Academy movie in 1984, and in the first Mannequin, in 1987. Cattrall is better known, however, for her work as "Samantha Jones" in the Sex and the City television series. Cattrall has played "Samantha" since the series premiered. Like "Samantha Jones", some of her other characters have been known for being sexually open women. In addition to her career as an actress, she is also a writer, having co-written with her third husband Mark Levinson the book Satisfaction: The Art of the Female Orgasm. Cattrall has also been married to Larry Davis and Andre Lusonin. Credits Sex And The City: The Complete Fourth Season (2003) Sex And The City: The Complete First.
Kirsten Storm - well as two brothers, sister Gretchen and three dogs. Storm rose to fame among teenagers in 1999, when The Disney Channel released her made for television movie Zenon: Girl of the 21st. Century, where she starred alongside Raven-Symone. Filmography Kim Possible: The Secret Files (2003, video cartoon) Kim Possible (2002, television cartoon, voice of Bonnie Rockwaller) Zenon: The Sequel (2001, television) Days of Our Lives (1999- as Isabella Black) Belle's Tale of Friendship (1999, video) Sing me a Story With Belle (1999, television) Johnny Tsunami (1999, television, Emily) The Rockford Files...if it Bleeds, it Leads (1999, television, uncredited) Zenon, Girl of the 21st. Century The Cape (1996, The Kid).
Knitting needle - to be produced (e.g., firm or loose). The most widely recognized form of knitting needle, probably invented in the mid 19th Century, is usually called a straight needle. Straight needles are narrowed nearly to a point at one end and capped at the other with a knob or head (like the head of a straight pin), and are used almost exclusively for knitting flat two-dimensional fabrics like rectangles and squares. The needles are popular because the knob at the end of each needle prevents the stitches from inadvertently falling off the needles. Fictional depictions of knitting in movies, television programs, animation, and comic strips almost always show knitting done on straight needles. Both Wallace and Gromit and Monty Python, for example, show knitting being done with straight needles. The oldest known.
Kristin Davis - is also the host of MTV's show, 200 Greatest Pop Icons. Davis has also had roles in movies and other television series. Her characterization of Charlotte in the HBO show, however, sent her into the spotlight in the United States and abroad. Credits 200 Greatest Pop Icons (2003, show) Beyond the Skyline (2003, herself) Three Days (2001, television movie, Beth Farmer) Someone to Love (2001, television movie, Lorraine) Sex and the Matrix (2000, television movie, Charlotte) Blacktop (2000, Sylvia) Take me Home: The John Denver story (2000, television movie, Annie Denver) ER (2000, Erin) Grosse Pointe (2000, herself and Satin) Atomic Train (1999, television movie, Megan Seger) Travelling Companion (1998, Annie) Sex and the City (1998-2003, Charlotte York) Sour Grapes (1998, Riggs) Seinfeld (1997, Jenna) The Single Guy (1997, Leslie) A.
Japan - Japanese Archipelago extends from north to south along the eastern coast of Eurasian Continent or the farthermost west of Pacific Ocean. Japan belongs to the temperate zone with distinct four seasons, but varies from cool temperate in north to subtropical in south. The climate is also affected by the seasonal winds blown from the continent to the ocean in winters and vise versa in summers. Late June and early July are a rainy season except Hokkaido as a seasonal rain front or baiu zensen (梅雨前線) stays above Japan. In the late summer and early autumn typhoons, grown from tropical depressions generated near the equator, track from the south-west to the north-east and often bring heavy rain. Its varied geographical features divide Japan into six principal climatic zones. Hokkaido: Belonging to the.
January 1 - prison 1935 - Bucknell University wins the first Orange Bowl 26-0 over the University of Miami 1937 - Anastasio Somoza becomes President of Nicaragua 1937 - The first Cotton Bowl game is played in Dallas, Texas 1939 - Vienna New Year's Concert is first held. 1942 - World War II: The word "United Nations" is first officially used to describe the Allied pact. 1942 - USS Captor is acquired by the Navy as part of the Auxiliary Vessels Act. 1945 - USS California (BB-44) departs from Palau for the Luzon landings 1945 - USS Colorado (BB-45) Returns to Luzon on and participates in the preinvasion bombardments in Lingayen Gulf. 1945 - Bahawalpur State issues its own stamps. 1948 - Nationalisation of UK railways to form British Railways. 1948 - Enrico De.
