House (1995 film)

House is a Canadian drama film, released in 1995. Written and directed by Laurie Lynd as an adaptation of Daniel MacIvor's one-man play House, the film stars MacIvor as Victor, an antisocial drifter with some hints of paranoid schizophrenia, who arrives in the town of Hope Springs and invites ten strangers into the local church to watch him perform a monologue about his struggles and disappointments in life.

The original play was performed solely by MacIvor. For the film, Lynd added several other actors, giving the audience members some moments of direct interaction and intercutting Victor's monologue with scenes which directly depict the stories he describes. The extended cast includes Anne Anglin, Ben Cardinal, Patricia Collins, Jerry Franken, Caroline Gillis, Kathryn Greenwood, Nicky Guadagni, Joan Heney, Rachel Luttrell, Stephen Ouimette, Simon Richards, Christofer Williamson and Jonathan Wilson.

The film premiered at the 1995 Toronto International Film Festival in the Perspectives Canada series, before going into general release in 1996.

Babes in Toyland (band)

Babes in Toyland is an American punk rock band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1987. The band was formed by Oregon native Kat Bjelland (lead vocals and guitar), with Lori Barbero (drums) and Michelle Leon (bass), who was later replaced by Maureen Herman in 1992.

Between 1989 and 1995, Babes in Toyland released three studio albums; Spanking Machine (1990), the commercially successful Fontanelle (1992), and Nemesisters (1995), before becoming inactive in 1997 and eventually disbanding in 2001. While the band was inspirational to some performers in the riot grrrl movement in the Pacific Northwest, Babes in Toyland never associated themselves with the movement.

In August 2014, Babes In Toyland announced that they would be reuniting.

History

Formation and early years (1987-1991)

Babes in Toyland formed in 1987, after frontwoman Kat Bjelland met drummer Lori Barbero at a friend's barbecue. Originally from Woodburn, Oregon and a former resident of San Francisco, Bjelland had moved to Minneapolis to form a band. Over the following months, Bjelland convinced Barbero to play drums and formed Babes in Toyland in winter 1987. In its initial formation in 1987, in addition to Bjelland and Barbero, the band included Kris Holetz on bass and singer Cindy Russell. It has been widely believed that, following the departures of Holetz and Russell, the band briefly recruited Bjelland's friend - and former bandmate of the band Pagan Babies - Courtney Love on bass. However, it is known that Love had lied to the press on multiple occasions about her involvement with the band. Love, who later went on to form the successful band Hole, only stood in Minneapolis a number of weeks before leaving as she was not in the band, but rather a roommate of Barbero's. She then stole money from the band and left Minneapolis. Bjelland, in an interview, once stated:

1790 House

Coordinates: 42°30′10″N 71°9′29″W / 42.50278°N 71.15806°W / 42.50278; -71.15806

The 1790 House, also called the Joseph Bartlett House or the Bartlett-Wheeler House, is a historic house located at 827 Main Street, Woburn, Massachusetts, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is close to the Baldwin House, with the Middlesex Canal running between them.

The 1790 House, originally on Main Street, has been moved closer to the canal to make room for a hotel. It now faces more south than its original facing of southwest.

History

The Federal style house was originally built in 1790 on the banks of the Middlesex Canal, for Woburn lawyer Joseph Bartlett. Shortly before completion it was purchased by Col. Loammi Baldwin, noted engineer, who hoped to convince expatriate scientist and inventor Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, to return to his home town. Although this idea never came to fruition, author Frances Parkinson Keyes, who later spent childhood summers in the home, refers to it repeatedly in her memoirs as the Count Rumford House. The house also features in her autobiography, Roses in December.

Abwehrgruppe 218

Abwehrgruppe 218, known under the codename "Edelweiss" (German: "Edelweiß") was an Nazi German anti-partisan unit operating in Slovakia during World War II. Unit was led by SS-Sturmbannführer Erwein von Thun-Hohenstein. It was constituted during September 1944. In the period from September 1944 to April 1945 carried out more than 50 missions, which resulted in killing around 300 people, including civilians, another 600 were taken prisoners. One of the most famous actions of the unit is capture of members of American OSS mission under command of Lieutenant James Holt Greene and British SOE mission under Major John Sehmer od 26 December 1944 in the Nízke Tatry Mts. Unit is known for a number of war crimes, especially the massacre of civilians in the villages Ostrý Grúň a Kľak, which are considered among the most brutal war crimes committed on Slovak territory during the war.

Abwehrgruppe 218 "Edelweiss" had around 250-300 man in 4 sections:

Edelweiß (album)

Edelweiß is the second studio album released by Joachim Witt in 1982.

Track listing

Edelweiss (actress)

Edelweiss (Russian: Еделвайс and Bulgarian: Еделвайс) (born 1 September 1977 in Tyumen, Russia) is a Russian-Bulgarian actress, TV host, erotic model and former pornographic actress. She lives in Italy and is married to the Bulgarian photographer Aleksandar "Alex" Lomski.

Biography

Edelweiss was born 1 September 1977, in Tyumen, Russia. For 15 years she lives in Italy with her Bulgarian husband, the photographer Aleksandar "Alex" Lomski, who is also a former porn actor. Edelweiss met her future husband Aleksandar in Bulgaria. In 2006, she posed for the Bulgarian edition of Playboy magazine. In 2013, she participated in VIP Brother 5.

Partial filmography

Mainstream films