Jim Fixx - Jim Fixx James F. Fixx was born on April 23, 1932, he was the author of the 1977 best-selling book, The Complete Book of Running. Best known as Jim Fixx, he is credited with helping start America's fitness revolution, popularizing the sport of running and demonstrating the health benefits of regular jogging. In 1980 he published a follow up book titled Jim Fixx's Second Book of Running: The Companion Volume to The Complete Book of Running. In his books and on television talk shows he often talked abort how he jogged an average of 60 miles every week on the basis that the physical exercise considerably increased the average human being's life expectancy. On July 20, 1984, while out jogging, 52-year-old Jim Fixx collapsed and died.
1977 in literature - Shaw Bloodline - Sidney Sheldon A Bonus - Elizabeth Smart The Chancellor Manuscript - Robert Ludlum Child of the Morning - Pauline Gedge The Complete Book of Running - Jim Fixx Dreams Die First - Harold Robbins The Honourable Schoolboy - John le Carré How to Save Your Own Life - Erica Jong Illusions - Richard Bach Oliver's Story - Erich Segal A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch The Shining - Stephen King The Slave Girl - Buchi Emecheta Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison Terms of Endearment - Larry McMurtry The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough The True American, A Folk Fable - Melvin Van Peebles The Wars - Timothy Findley Rocky Marciano. Biography of A First Son - Everett M. Skehan.
The TKO Horns - Horns were a brass section formed in 1982 when Big Jim Paterson (trombone), Paul Speare (tenor sax) and Brian Maurice (alto sax) left Dexy's Midnight Runners. After a brief spell touring with Paul Young's Q Tips they began performing on a regular basis with Elvis Costello. Another former Dexy's sax player, Geoff Blythe, soon replaced Maurice and Dave Plews (trumpet) was added as The TKO Horns featured prominently on Costello's 1983 album Punch The Clock. Over the next few years they performed on records by numerous other artists including Madness, Squeeze, Nick Lowe, Howard Jones and The Fixx. Paul Speare also appeared on The Special A.K.A.'s Nelson Mandela while Paterson and Blythe teamed up again in 1989 as part of a group called The Neighbourhood. More recently Blythe has been a.
Protest song - Who "My War" Black Flag "My Youngest Son Came Home Today" Eric Bogle "Mothers, Daughters, Wives" "Ohio" Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - about the Kent State massacre "One Tin Soldier (The Legend of Billy Jack)" Coven "Peace" Los Lobos "Peat Bog Soldiers" "People Gotta Be Free" The Young Rascals "Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town" Kenny Rogers "Run Through the Jungle" Creedence Clearwater Revival "Sam Stone" John Prine "Send the Marines" Tom Lehrer "Signs" The Five Man Electrical Band "Sky Pilot" Eric Burdon "Today I Killed a Man" P. J. Proby "The Train For Auschwitz" "Tape From California" Phil Ochs "The Times They Are A-Changin'" Bob Dylan "Turn Turn Turn" The Byrds or Pete Seeger "Universal Soldier" Donovan "The Unelected President" Crass [1] "The Unknown Soldier" The Doors "Vietnam".
List of books by title: C - (1959) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Ian Fleming Choke - Chuck Palahniuk (2001) Chocolat - Joanne Harris (1999) The Choirboys - Joseph Wambaugh (1975) The Chosen - Chaim Potok (1967) Christine - Stephen King (1983) The Christmas Box - Richard Paul Evans (1993) A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (1843) Christy - Catherine Marshall (1967) Chronicle of the French Revolution - Jean Favier et al. (1989) Chronicles of Bustos Domecq - Jorge Luis Borges (with Adolfo Bioy Casares) (1967) The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis The Chrysalids - John Wyndham (1955) Chute, La - Albert Camus (1956) CIA World Factbook The Cider House Rules - John Irving (1985) The Circle Game - Margaret Atwood (1966) Citizen of the Galaxy - Robert A. Heinlein (1957) City of God - Augustine of.
Jim Morrison - Jim Morrison Jim Morrison (December 8, 1943 - July 3, 1971) was a singer, songwriter and poet. Born James Douglas Morrison in Melbourne, Florida, he was the lead singer and lyricist of the popular American rock band The Doors. He was also an author of several poetry books. James Douglas Morrison was the son of George Stephen Morrison and his wife Clara Clark Morrison, both employed by the United States Navy. His father was a strict military officer, who served as an admiral. Jim was raised by his conservative parents but would grow to express drastically different views than those taught to him. According to Morrison the most important event of his life came in 1947 during a family trip in New Mexico. He described the.
Jim Jarmusch - Jim Jarmusch Jim Jarmusch (born January 22, 1953) is a noted film director. Following years of near-success in the American independent film community, he has achieved a level of notoriety with his far-East philosophy-themed Western movie set in New Jersey, Ghost Dog - The Way of the Samurai, starring Forest Whitaker, which also featured a soundtrack by the Wu-Tang Clan's Rza. One of his major projects is an ongoing series of short films called Coffee and Cigarettes. The original six-minute film appeared in 1986, featuring filmmaker Roberto Benigni and comedian Steven Wright. Three years later, he released Coffee and Cigarettes - Memphis Version, with actor Steve Buscemi, which was eight minutes long. The most recent 12-minute installment was in 1993, Coffee and Cigarettes - Somewhere in.
Jimi Hendrix - June 29, Noel Redding formally announced to the media that he had quit the Jimi Hendrix Experience, although he effectively ceased to be with Hendrix during most of the recording of Electric Ladyland. By August of 1969, however, Hendrix had formed a new band in order to play the Woodstock festival. The set, while notably under-rehearsed, ragged, and played out to a slowly emptying field of revellers, featured an improvised instrumental version of "The Star Spangled Banner", distorted almost beyond recognition, clearly symbolic of the unrest in US society over both civil rights issues and the Vietnam War. "The Star Spangled Banner" was an instant classic. The inspiration was politically motivated and it was the cry of the new generation. The Woodstock band was short lived, and Hendrix formed a new.
Jim Henson - Jim Henson Jim Henson (September 24, 1936 - May 16, 1990) was an American filmmaker and television producer, and arguably the most important puppeteer in American history -- certainly the most important in modern times. Creator of the Muppets, and the leading force behind their long creative run, Henson brought an engaging cast of characters, innovative ideas, and a pitch-perfect sense of timing and humor to many millions of people. He is also widely acknowledged for the ongoing vision of faith, friendship, love of magic, and unconditional love which informed nearly all of his work. Born in Greenville, Mississippi in 1936, Henson moved with his family to Maryland, near Washington, DC in the late 1940s. In 1954, while still in high school, he began working for.
Jim Bakker - Jim Bakker Jim Bakker (born January 2, 1939, Muskegon, Michigan) is an American televangelist, and the former host of The PTL Club (PTL is an acronym for 'Praise the Lord' and 'People That Love') with his wife Tammy Faye Bakker. From 1984 to 1987, Bakker and his associates offered life-time partnerships to fund the building of facilities at "Heritage USA", a Christian holiday and activity center in Fort Mill, South Carolina. In return for their financial support, the partners were promised free lodging at Heritage USA, if space was available. However, the organisation could not keep its promises towards them and was accused of deliberately refraining from building sufficient lodging space for regular guests plus Lifetime Partners. One of the most important allegations was that they.
Jimmy Shea - gold medal in the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. After his father Jim Shea, who competed in nordic combined and cross country skiing events in the 1964 Olympics and his grandfather Jack Shea, who won two gold medals in the 1932 Olympics in speed skating, he is the third generation of his family to take part in Winter Games. Although American media repeatedly claimed that he was the first third generation Olympian, this honor in fact belongs to the Norwegian Lunde family who placed their third generation in the Olympics in 1960. He became the first American to win a World Cup race and a World Championship in the sport, and has more World Cup victories than any other American..
Jim Crow law - Jim Crow law In the United States, the so-called Jim Crow laws (or Black Codes) were made to enforce racial segregation, and included laws that would prevent African-Americans from doing things that a "white" person could do. For instance, Jim Crow laws regulated separate use of water fountains and separate seating sections on public transport. Jim Crow laws varied between communities and states. The first Jim Crow law was passed in 1723, when blacks in the state of Virginia were stripped of the right to vote and own property. The later passage of Black Codes, which attempted to return freed slave to bondage in fact, rather than name, by Southern legislatures immediately after the American Civil War led to the policy of Reconstruction, in which the.
Jim Thorpe - Jim Thorpe James "Jim" Thorpe (May 28, 1888 - March 28, 1953) was an American sportsman. He was born in Prague, Oklahoma. Thorpe, a Sac Indian (his Sac name was Wa-Tho-Huk or Bright Path), participated in many sports, playing American football and baseball, before he competed in the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm. There he won both the pentathlon and decathlon events, earning him a compliment from the Swedish king: "Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world." In 1913, however, Thorpe had to return his medals, as it was discovered that he had played semi-professional baseball in 1909 and 1910, which was against the - then very strict - amateurism rules. However, the medals were restored again in 1982, though Thorpe had died almost.
Jim Rome - Jim Rome Jim Rome is an American sports radio talk show host. He hosts "The Jim Rome Show" weekdays from 9 am to 12 noon Pacific Time. He also hosts the television shows "The Last Word" and "Rome Is Burning" (the latter airs on ESPN). All these shows deal with the sports world in general. The radio show takes calls from listeners (known as "clones") and features interviews. Both television shows primarily feature interviews with athletes and other people associated with sports. Rome achieved notoriety for an incident in 1994 when he repeatedly called NFL quarterback Jim Everett, "Chris" (after Chris Evert, the tennis player)..
Jim Hines - Jim Hines James Hines (born September 10, 1946 in Dumas, Arkansas) is an American athlete who held the 100 m World Record for 15 years. A baseball player in his younger years, Jim Hines was spotted by a track coach as an talent and became a sprinter. At the 1968 national championships in Sacramento, Hines became the first man to break the ten second barrier, setting 9,9 (manual timing), with a real time of 10.03 - two other athletes, Charlie Greene and Ronnie Ray Smth having got the same time on the other semi-final. A few months later, at the Olympics themselves, Hines - a black athlete - found himself in a tense situation, with racial riots going on in his home country and a threat.
Jim Rice - Jim Rice Jim Rice (March 8, 1953 - ) was a baseball player with the Boston Red Sox from 1974 until 1989, and later a hitting instructor. Rice was a power hitter; he finished his career with 382 home runs and a .298 batting average. Rice was a rookie in 1976 at the same time as Freddie Lynn. Lynn was both Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player that year. Rice would have been a good candidate for either in any other year. The Red Sox won the American League Pennant and went on to play the Cincinnati Reds in the World Series. It is widely regarded as the best World Series ever played. Unfortunately, Rice did not participate. He broke his arm before the.
Jim Shooter - Jim Shooter Jim Shooter is a controversial writer, editor, and publisher for various comic books. A child prodigy who began selling stories to DC comics when he was 13, Shooter eventually became the editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics from 1978 to 1987. After leaving Marvel he founded his own company Valiant which acquired the rights to a number of older Gold Key characters which they published as well as various Nintendo game related comics. After leaving Valiant he founded Defiant Comics. After Defiant Comics failed he founded Broadway Comics. After Broadway Comics failed he founded Daring Comics. Shooter's tenure as editor-in-chief at Marvel remains controversial to this day. An external interview with him can be read here..
Jim Bunning - Jim Bunning James Paul David ("Jim") Bunning (born October 23, 1931) has distinguished himself in two fields: both as a pitcher in Major League Baseball, from 1955 to 1971, and as a member of the United States Senate representing the Commonwealth of Kentucky since 1999. He was born in Southgate, Kentucky. His first game as a major league pitcher was on July 20, 1955. For the 1955 to 1963 seasons, he pitched for the Detroit Tigers, moving to the Philadelphia Phillies from 1964 through 1967, to the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1968 through the middle of the 1969 season (finishing the 1969 season on the Los Angeles Dodgers), and back to the Phillies, where he closed his career in 1970 and 1971. He wore uniform number 15.
Jim Carrey - Jim Carrey James Eugene Carrey (born January 17, 1962) is an actor, comedian, writer and producer from Newmarket, Ontario, Canada. A born comedian, Carrey mailed his résumé to The Carol Burnett Show when he was 10 years old. The teachers in Carrey's high school gave him a few minutes at the end of each school day to do a stand-up routine for his classmates. The Carrey family fell on hard times and were forced to move to Scarborough, a Toronto suburb, where they took security and janitorial jobs in the Titan Wheels factory. Carrey began working eight-hour shifts each day after school. Eventually, the Carrey family escaped life at Titan by living on a relative's lawn out of the family Volkswagen van until they could move.
Jim O'Rourke - Jim O'Rourke Jim O'Rourke (born 1969) is an American musician and producer, associated with the Chicago jazz and improv scene. Known for his idiosyncratic tastes, and regarded as something as an expert on modern experimental music he has released albums of jazz, electronica, noise and even guitar rock music. He has collaborated with the likes of Derek Bailey, Stereolab, Fennesz and Keith Rowe, and produced albums by artists as varied as Royal Trux and Tony Conrad. He is noted as producer for Wilco's very successful Yankee Hotel Foxtrot album, which made many reviewers' top ten lists for 2002, along with his first Sonic Youth album as a full time member. O'Rourke has released a large number of albums and was once a member of Gastr Del.
