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Clown Egg Register
The Clowns Gallery-Museum is a museum of clowning. Established in 1959, the collection contains costumes and props from famous clowns, as well as a reference library, and is home to the Clown Egg Register. History The collection is split between the museum's two sites, Holy Trinity Church in Dalston, London, and Wookey Hole in Somerset, England. The museum was established in 1959 in Dalston and the collection was split into a venue in Wookey Hole in 2007. The Dalston museum is situated in what was the vestry of the Holy Trinity Church. It was threatened with closure in 2014 but remained in place. The Wookey Hole museum is run by Gerry Cottle, vice president of Clowns International. Clown Egg Register The Clown Egg Register is an archive of painted ceramic and hen's eggs that serve as a record of individual clowns' personal make-up designs. The clown egg tradition began in 1946, when Stan Bult, a chemist, and founder of Clowns International, took to drawing the faces of club ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clowning
A clown is a person who performs physical comedy and arts in an Improvisational theatre#Comedy, open-ended fashion, typically while wearing distinct cosmetics, makeup or costume, costuming and reversing social norm, folkway-norms. The art of performing as a clown is known as clowning or buffoonery, and the term "clown" may be used synonymously with predecessors like jester, joker, buffoon, fool, or harlequin. Clowns have a diverse tradition with significant variations in costume and performance. The most recognisable clowns are those that commonly perform in the circus, characterized by colorful wigs, red noses, and oversized shoes. However, clowns have also played roles in theater and folklore, like the court jesters of the Middle Ages and the jesters and ritual clowns of various indigenous cultures. Their performances can elicit a range of emotions, from humor and laughter to fear and discomfort, reflecting complex societal and psychological dimensions. Through the centuries, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Criminal Minds
''Criminal Minds'' is an American police procedural crime drama television series created by Jeff Davis that premiered on CBS on September 22, 2005. It follows a group of criminal profilers who work for the FBI as members of its Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU). ''Criminal Minds'' became a ratings hit for CBS, regularly featuring as one of the network's most-watched shows and winning the Best TV Crime Drama award at the People’s Choice Awards in 2017. Its success has spawned a media franchise, with several spinoffs, a South Korean adaptation, and a video game. ''Criminal Minds'' originally culminated after its fifteenth season on February 19, 2020; however, it was revived and re-titled ''Criminal Minds: Evolution'' for its sixteenth season, which premiered on Paramount+ in November 2022. In March 2025, ''Criminal Minds'' was renewed for a nineteenth season. Premise The series follows a group of criminal profilers who work for the FBI as members of its Behavioral Analy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clowning
A clown is a person who performs physical comedy and arts in an Improvisational theatre#Comedy, open-ended fashion, typically while wearing distinct cosmetics, makeup or costume, costuming and reversing social norm, folkway-norms. The art of performing as a clown is known as clowning or buffoonery, and the term "clown" may be used synonymously with predecessors like jester, joker, buffoon, fool, or harlequin. Clowns have a diverse tradition with significant variations in costume and performance. The most recognisable clowns are those that commonly perform in the circus, characterized by colorful wigs, red noses, and oversized shoes. However, clowns have also played roles in theater and folklore, like the court jesters of the Middle Ages and the jesters and ritual clowns of various indigenous cultures. Their performances can elicit a range of emotions, from humor and laughter to fear and discomfort, reflecting complex societal and psychological dimensions. Through the centuries, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museums In The London Borough Of Hackney
A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying or preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects. Many museums have exhibitions of these objects on public display, and some have private collections that are used by researchers and specialists. Museums host a much wider range of objects than a library, and they usually focus on a specific theme, such as the arts, science, natural history or local history. Public museums that host exhibitions and interactive demonstrations are often tourist attractions, and many draw large numbers of visitors from outside of their host country, with the most visited museums in the world attracting millions of visitors annually. Since the establishment of the earliest known museum in ancient times, museums have been associated with academia and the preservation of rare items. Museums originated as private collections of interesting items, and not until much later did the emphasis on educating the public take root. Etymology ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monster Prom
''Monster Prom'' is a dating simulation game developed by Beautiful Glitch, a studio based in Barcelona and founded by Julián Quijano, and published by Those Awesome Guys. The game was released for Windows, macOS and Linux on 27 April 2018 and was distributed on Steam. A Nintendo Switch release was launched on 21 May 2020. ''Monster Prom'' was written by Julián Quijano, Cory O’Brien and Maggie Herskowitz, illustrated by Arthur Tien, and programmed by Elías Pereiras. Players assume the role of a student at Spooky High (later renamed to Spooky Academy as of ''Monster Prom 3: Monster Roadtrip''), a school populated by monsters, as they attempt to find a date to prom. An expansion to the game, titled ''Monster Prom: Second Term'', was released on 14 February 2019. A sequel, '' Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp'', was released on October 23, 2020, followed by a third sequel '' Monster Prom 3: Monster Roadtrip'' on October 21, 2022. A fourth sequel, ''Monster Prom 4: Monster Con'' was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Allison (comics)
John Allison (born 1976) is a comic writer and artist. He has been producing comics since 1998 and his work has won multiple Eisner Awards. Biography Allison started creating webcomics in 1998 with '' Bobbins'', a series which ran on Keenspot. He ended ''Bobbins'' in 2002, later saying that he had fallen out of love with the rough and ready nature of 'Bobbins', and at the same time started a new comic, '' Scary Go Round''. Then, in 2009, he ended ''Scary Go Round'' and started ''Bad Machinery''. In an interview, Allison said that he ended ''Scary Go Round'' because "the work I was doing was becoming somewhat uninspired. I had a lot of characters that I didn't care about, and I was making whole runs of strips about characters that people didn't really like... I had lost perspective and direction. I was also losing readers for the last year and it was evident that changes had to be made." Allison described ''Scary Go Round'' as "a comic that I've been making since 2002. It sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balatro (video Game)
''Balatro'' is a 2024 poker-themed roguelike deck-building game developed by LocalThunk and published by Playstack. It was released on Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S on February 20, 2024, with a port to macOS on March 1. Ports for Android and iOS were released on September 26, 2024. In the game, the player must score a certain number of points by playing poker hands from a starting 52-card deck, with a limited number of hands and discards each round. The game was developed over a two-and-a-half year period by sole developer LocalThunk, inspired by the card game Big Two and the roguelike video game '' Luck Be a Landlord''. LocalThunk had only seen the game as a side project to put on a résumé, not anticipating the success of the game. ''Balatro'' has received universal acclaim from game critics, selling more than 5 million copies by January 2025. Along with several other awards and nominations, ''Balatro'' was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Men At Arms
''Men at Arms'' is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the 15th book in the ''Discworld'' series, first published in 1993. It is the second novel about the Ankh-Morpork City Watch on the Discworld. Lance-constable Angua von Überwald, later in the series promoted to the rank of Sergeant, is introduced in this book. Lance-constable (in the course of the novel promoted to Acting-constable) Detritus is introduced as a new member of the watch as well, though he had already appeared in other Discworld novels, most notably in '' Moving Pictures''. Also notable is the only appearance of Lance-constable Cuddy (also promoted to Acting-constable). Plot Edward d'Eath, an Assassin and son of a down-and-out noble family, becomes convinced that the restoration of the Ankh-Morpork monarchy will solve the social change in the city which he blames for his family's humbling. He researches the history of the royal family and determines that Carrot Ironfoundersson is in fact the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Pratchett
Sir Terence David John Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author, humorist, and Satire, satirist, best known for the ''Discworld'' series of 41 comic fantasy novels published between 1983 and 2015, and for the Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, apocalyptic comedy novel ''Good Omens'' (1990), which he co-wrote with Neil Gaiman. Pratchett's first novel, ''The Carpet People'', was published in 1971. The first ''Discworld'' novel, ''The Colour of Magic'', was published in 1983, after which Pratchett wrote an average of two books a year. The final ''Discworld'' novel, ''The Shepherd's Crown'', was published in August 2015, five months after his death. With more than 100 million books sold worldwide in 43 languages, Pratchett was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1998 and was Knight Bachelor, knighted for services to literature in the 2009 New Year Honours. In 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spencer Reid
This is a list of characters in the television series ''Criminal Minds'', an American police procedural drama which premiered September 22, 2005, on CBS and concluded its original run on February 19, 2020. It is also shown on A&E (TV network), A&E and Ion Television in the United States. A sixteenth season of the show began airing on Paramount+ on November 24, 2022. Main characters ; Notes Current main characters Former main characters Recurring Recurrent Agent Grant Anderson Played by Brian Appel, Agent Anderson appears in "Plain Sight" (episode 1.4)", The Fisher King" (1.22 and 2.1), "The Big Game" (2.14), as well as "Honor Among Thieves" (2.20), "The Crossing" (3.18), "100 (Criminal Minds), 100" (5.9), "The Slave of Duty" (5.10), "Hope" (7.8), "Hit" (7.23), "Run" (7.24), "Carbon Copy" (8.16), "The Replicator" (8.24), "To Bear Witness" (9.4), and "200 (Criminal Minds), 200" (9.14). Agent Anderson is told to drive Elle home in "The Fisher King", and he drops ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dalston
Dalston () is an area of East London, in the London Borough of Hackney. It is northeast of Charing Cross. Dalston began as a hamlet on either side of Dalston Lane, and as the area urbanised the term also came to apply to surrounding areas including Kingsland and Shacklewell, all three of which being part of the Ancient Parish of Hackney. The area has experienced a high degree of gentrification in recent years, a process accelerated by the East London line extension, now part of London Overground, and the reopening of Dalston Junction railway station, part of London's successful bid to host the 2012 Olympics. Bounds Dalston has never been an administrative unit, and partly for this reason the boundaries are not formally defined. There are generally understood boundaries in the south and west, but less clarity to the north and east. There is an electoral ward of the same name which covers a part of the northwest of Dalston. Dalston's boundaries (taking in Kingsland and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ross Noble
Ross Markham Noble (born 6 June 1976) is an English stand-up comedian and actor. Noble rose to mainstream popularity through making appearances on British television, particularly interviews and on panel shows such as '' Have I Got News for You''. He has also released DVDs of several of his tours. In 2007, he was voted the 10th-greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4's ''100 Greatest Stand-Ups'' and again in the updated 2010 list as the 11th-greatest stand-up comic. In 2012, Noble made his film debut in the fantasy comedy horror movie '' Stitches''. In 2015, he made his musical theatre debut in '' The Producers'' and in 2018 was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for his performance in '' Young Frankenstein'' in the West End. Early life Noble was born in 1976 in Newcastle upon Tyne and brought up in Cramlington, Northumberland. He was taught at Cramlington Learning Village. Both of his parents were teachers. Stand-up performance Noble's stand-up routine is a largely imp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
