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The modern history of guide dogs started in Germany in 1916-17 when the dogs were trained to lead soldiers blinded in the WWI. The story says that a doctor was called away from his blind patient and left his German shepherd with the man. He was so impressed by the dog’s behaviour that he decided to start experimenting in training the dogs to be guides for the blind patients.
By 1923 a guide dog training centre had been established in Potsdam. Then the school named the Seeing Eye was established in 1929 in the United States. Great Britain followed suit in 1931with The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association. The first guide dogs in Britain were German Shepherds.
Three breeds are used for guide dog programs around the world - Labrador Retrievers, Golden Retrievers, and German Shepherds. The Labrador Retriever is the most successful breed used for guide dogs. Any guide dog should meet three basic requirements: willingness, health and temperament.
The official name of the Oscar statuette is the Academy Award of Merit. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was set up in 1927 as a non-profit organization with 36 members. In 2003 it had a voting membership of 5,816.
The gold-plated statuette is made of an alloy called britannia. It is 13.5 inches (34 cm) tall and weighs 8.5 lb (3.85 kg). It depicts a knight with a crusader's sword, standing on a reel of film with five spokes, signifying the original branches of the Academy: Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers and Technicians.
There are few theories as to how the trophy became to be known as Oscar. One of the most popular stories is that Academy librarian Margaret Herrick said the statue looked like her uncle Oscar. The conversation was apparently overheard by a journalist who later used the moniker in an article. The Academy itself didn't use the nickname officially until 1939.
Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota, US, is a memorial that represents sculptures of four U.S. Presidents – George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. The sculptures are 18 m (60-foot) high, and the entire carving covers 5.17 sq. km (1,278 acres).
According to National Park Service, the memorial attracts around 2 million people annually.
The mount was named after Charles E. Rushmore, a prominent New York lawyer, in 1885. The purpose of carving project that started in 1927 and cost $989,992.32 was to attract tourists to the Black Hills region of South Dakota. Nearly 400 workers were involved in this project. 90% of the mountain was carved using dynamite.
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, (1899, London, England – 1980, Los Angeles, USA) was a director and producer of over 90 suspense and thriller movies. His career started in 1920th, from the silent film era, and lasted for six decades to the colour motion picture era.
He briefly appeared in all of his movies beginning with The Lodger (1927). In Lifeboat (1944) he, however, appeared on a picture in a newspaper advertisement for weight loss that floated among some debris around the boat. Around that time he had lost a considerable amount of weight from dieting, so he was seen in both the "Before" and the "After" pictures. All his life he was overweight, and was at his heaviest in the late 1930s with over 300 pounds (136 kg).
When Hitchcock was a kid, after acting childishly he was sent by his father sent him to the local police station carrying a note. After reading this note the police officer on duty locked him in a cell for about ten minutes. Later he cited this phobia as the reason he never learned to drive. Moreover, in almost every Hitchcock’s film, the police either have no impact at all, or mistake important clues, or let the culprit go.
Courteney Cox was originally asked to play Rachel, but she asked to play Monica instead after reading the parts.
When Matt LeBlanc auditioned for the role he only had $11 dollars to his name. When the cast got their paychecks, the first thing that Jennifer Aniston bought was a car. Matt LeBlanc bought a hot dinner.
In the last few months of shooting Friends, Courteney Cox became pregnant, but, seeing as Monica wasn't supposed to be able to have a baby, they covered up her pregnancy by making her wear baggy clothes while shooting the show so no one could tell.
At one point, Jennifer Aniston was shooting this series, Bruce Almighty (2003) and Along Came Polly (2004) at the same time.
30-second commercial spots to take place in the final ever episode sold in the UK for 1.2 million GB pounds (approx $1.8 million), the most expensive commercial slots of any TV program in England with the exception of sports.
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