Barbara Crampton (born December 27, 1958) is an American actress and producer. She began her career in the 1980s in television soap operas before starring in horror and thriller films—both paths would define her continued accolade-winning career.. Crampton made her television debut on the daytime drama Days of Our Lives (1983–84) before a supporting role as Leanna Love …

Barbara Mary Crampton Pym FRSL (2 June 1913 – 11 January 1980) was an English novelist. In the 1950s she published a series of social comedies, of which the best known are Excellent Women (1952) and A Glass of Blessings (1958). In 1977 her career was revived when the critic Lord David Cecil and the poet Philip Larkin both nominated her as the most under-rated writer …

Vision is the most important sense for birds, since good eyesight is essential for safe flight.Birds have a number of adaptations which give visual acuity superior to that of other vertebrate groups; a pigeon has been described as "two eyes with wings". Birds are theropod dinosaurs, and the avian eye resembles that of other reptiles, with ciliary muscles that can change the shape of …

This list of people in Playboy 1980–1989 is a catalog of women and men who appeared in Playboy magazine in the years 1980 through 1989. Not all of the people featured in the magazine are pictured in the nude. Entries in blue indicate that the issue marks the original appearance of that year's Playmate of the Year (PMOY).

The Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum (PETM), alternatively "Eocene thermal maximum 1" (ETM1), and formerly known as the "Initial Eocene" or "Late Paleocene thermal maximum", was a time period with a more than 5–8 °C global average temperature rise across the event. This climate event occurred at the time boundary of the Paleocene and Eocene geological epochs.

Early life and childhood. Lansbury was born to an upper-middle-class family on 16 October 1925 in the district of St Pancras in Central London. Her birthplace is sometimes given, wrongly, as Poplar, East London. Lansbury said that she had ancestral connections to Poplar but was born in Regent's Park, Central London. Her mother was Belfast-born actress Moyna Macgill (born …

Questa categoria di sex-symbol venne identificata col nome di pin-up, e appunto stava a indicare una categoria di splendide ragazze, sexy e prorompenti, prive di quell'alone di mistero che aveva caratterizzato le "dive" degli anni trenta, elemento che contribuì di certo a conferire loro il favore del pubblico.Erano tipiche bellezze americane, dalle gambe lunghe e tornite, curve abbondanti …

The April Uprising (Bulgarian: Априлско въстание, romanized: Aprilsko vastanie) was an insurrection organised by the Bulgarians in the Ottoman Empire from April to May 1876. The regular Ottoman Army and irregular bashi-bazouk units brutally suppressed the rebels, resulting in a public outcry in Europe, with many famous intellectuals condemning the atrocities—labelled …

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Castle Freak is a 1995 American direct-to-video horror film directed by Stuart Gordon.The film stars Jeffrey Combs as John Reilly, an American recovering alcoholic who inherits an Italian castle when a distant relative passes away. John stays at the castle with his estranged wife Susan (Barbara Crampton) and blind daughter Rebecca (Jessica Dollarhide), but a freakish monster …