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King Of The Railway
''Thomas & Friends: King of the Railway'' is a 2013 British animated fantasy comedy adventure film that functions as the seventh feature-length special based on the British television series ''Thomas & Friends''. The film was produced and distributed by HIT Entertainment with animation production by Canadian-based Arc Productions, who took over animation from Nitrogen Studios for the series and following specials from then on. It marks the debut of Mark Moraghan as the narrator for both English versions of the series. The movie centres on Thomas in the search for his new friend Stephen, who goes missing during the restoration of Ulfstead Castle. The film had a two-day Limited theatrical release in the UK on 23 August 2013 and was released to DVD shortly afterward. Plot In medieval times, Sodor was a kingdom under the rule of King Godred. One day, Godred's crown was stolen by thieves. Though the thieves were caught, the crown was hidden and considered lost forever. In present da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Brenner (writer)
Andrew O. Brenner (born January 14, 1971) is a U.S. Republican party politician and member of the Ohio Senate, currently serving his second term for the 19th Senate District. Biography In 2010, former Representative Kris Jordan moved to the Ohio Senate, and Brenner ran for his open seat. In the Republican Primary, Brenner faced five opponents collecting 24.4% of the vote. In the general election, facing Richard Bird, he won by 26,000 votes. Representative Brenner served as Delaware County Recorder from 2005 until 2010 before his election to the Ohio House. Prior to his election as Recorder, he served on the Kingston Township zoning board and as a representative to the Delaware County Regional Planning Commission for Kingston Township. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from The Ohio State University in 1993, majoring in marketing and economics. Upon graduation from college he spent 11 years as an entrepreneur in the real estate and mortgage fields. Sen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jam Filled Entertainment
Jam Filled Entertainment is a Canadian animation studio based in Ottawa, Ontario (with additional facilities in Toronto and Halifax), and a subsidiary of Boat Rocker Media. The company is known for animating several Nicktoons series such as ''The Loud House'' and its spin-off ''The Casagrandes,'' and ''Pinky Malinky'', as well as the Cartoon Network series ''DC Super Hero Girls (TV series), DC Super Hero Girls'' and ''Final Space''. Its Toronto studio, formerly known as Arc Productions and Starz Animation, has worked on CGI films and series such as ''Chop Socky Chooks'', ''Gnomeo & Juliet'', ''Thomas & Friends,'' and ''VeggieTales.'' History Jam Filled Entertainment was founded in Manotick in 2007 by Kyle MacDougall, Phil Lafrance, and Jamie Leclaire. In January 2011, Jam Filled moved to a new location in Ottawa. On August 3, 2016, Boat Rocker Media acquired Jam Filled Entertainment, with the company maintaining its management as a subsidiary. On August 22, Jam Filled then acq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Opening
An opening ceremony, grand opening, or ribbon-cutting ceremony marks the official opening of a newly constructed location or the start of an event.''Streetwise Meeting and Event Planning'' Grand Openings: Chapter 8. . pp. 89–103. Opening ceremonies at significant events such as the , , and the |
Buried Treasure
Buried treasure is a literary trope commonly associated with depictions of pirates, alongside Vikings, criminals, and outlaws in the Old West. According to popular conception, these people often buried their stolen fortunes in remote places, intending to return to them later (often with the use of a pirate's treasure map). Pirates burying treasure was a rare occurrence, with one of the only known instances being William Kidd, who was accused of burying some of his wealth on Gardiners Island. The myth of buried pirate treasure was popularized by such 19th-century fiction as " Wolfert Webber" by Washington Irving, " The Gold-Bug" by Edgar Allan Poe, and '' Treasure Island'' by Robert Louis Stevenson. The idea of treasure maps leading to buried treasure is considered a fictional device. There are cases of buried treasure from different historical periods, such as the Dacian king Decebalus and Visigoth king Alaric I, who both changed the course of rivers to hide their treasur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tourist Attraction
A tourist attraction is a place of interest that tourists visit, typically for its inherent or exhibited natural or cultural value, historical significance, natural or built beauty, offering leisure and amusement. Types Places of natural beauty such as beaches, tropical island resorts, national parks, mountains, deserts and forests, are examples of traditional tourist attractions which people may visit. Cultural tourist attractions can include historical places, sites of significant historic wikt:event, event, monuments, ancient temples, zoos, public aquarium, aquaria, museums and art galleries, botanical gardens, buildings and structures (such as List of forts, forts, castles, library, libraries, former prisons, skyscrapers, bridges), theme parks and carnivals, living history museums, public art (sculptures, statues, murals), ethnic enclave communities, heritage railway, historic trains and cultural events. Factory tours, industrial heritage, creative art and crafts workshops a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephenson's Rocket
Stephenson's ''Rocket'' is an early steam locomotive of 0-2-2 wheel arrangement. It was built for and won the Rainhill Trials of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR), held in October 1829 to show that improved locomotives would be more efficient than stationary steam engines. ''Rocket'' was designed and built by Robert Stephenson in 1829, and built at the Forth Street Works of his company in Newcastle upon Tyne. Though ''Rocket'' was not the first steam locomotive, it was the first to bring together several innovations that produced the most advanced locomotive of its day. It is the most famous example of an evolving design of locomotives by Stephenson, and became the template for most steam engines in the following 150 years. The locomotive was displayed in the Science Museum in London until 2018, after which it was briefly exhibited at sites around the UK, ultimately at National Railway Museum in York. Since 2023, it has been based at the Locomotion Museum in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James The Red Engine
James the Red Engine is a fictional character from ''the Railway Series'' children's books created by Wilbert Awdry and the television adaptation ''Thomas & Friends''. He is an anthropomorphic tender locomotive, and is the number 5 engine on the North Western Railway (fictional), North Western Railway, the Fat Controller's railway on the Sodor (fictional island), Island of Sodor. James debuted in the 1946 book ''Thomas the Tank Engine''. Two books in the series, ''James the Red Engine'' and ''James and the Diesel Engines'', are dedicated to James. Prototype and background James first appeared in ''The Railway Series'' in the 1946 book ''Thomas the Tank Engine''. He was named after James Furze, a friend of the publisher's son. He was originally painted black. At the request of the publishers, Awdry dedicated ''List of Railway Series books#James the Red Engine, James the Red Engine'' to the character. James was painted red in this and subsequent books. James is based on the L& ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas The Tank Engine
Thomas the Tank Engine is a fictional, anthropomorphised tank locomotive who originated from the British children's books ''The Railway Series'', created and written by Wilbert Awdry with his son Christopher Awdry, Christopher, first published in 1945. Thomas runs on the Fat Controller's North Western Railway on the Island of Sodor. He became the most popular character in the series, and is the titular protagonist in the accompanying television series adaptation ''Thomas & Friends'' and its reboot ''Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go''. Based on the LB&SCR E2 class,Sibley, Brian (1995). ''The Thomas the Tank Engine Man''. London: Heinemann. . Thomas debuted in the 1946 book ''Thomas the Tank Engine (book), Thomas the Tank Engine''—the second book in ''The Railway Series''—and was the focus of the four short stories featured within. In 1979, British writer and producer Britt Allcroft came across the books, and arranged a deal to make the television series ''Thomas the Tan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruins
Ruins () are the remains of a civilization's architecture. The term refers to formerly intact structures that have fallen into a state of partial or total disrepair over time due to a variety of factors, such as lack of maintenance, deliberate destruction by humans, or uncontrollable destruction by natural phenomena. The most common root causes that yield ruins in their wake are natural disasters, armed conflict, and population decline, with many structures becoming progressively derelict over time due to long-term weathering and scavenging. There are famous ruins all over the world, with notable sites originating from ancient China, the Indus Valley, ancient Iran, ancient Israel and Judea, ancient Iraq, ancient Greece, ancient Egypt, ancient Yemen, Roman, ancient India sites throughout the Mediterranean Basin, and Incan and Mayan sites in the Americas. Ruins are of great importance to historians, archaeologists and anthropologists, whether they were once individual fort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earl
Earl () is a rank of the nobility in the United Kingdom. In modern Britain, an earl is a member of the Peerages in the United Kingdom, peerage, ranking below a marquess and above a viscount. A feminine form of ''earl'' never developed; instead, ''countess'' is used. The title originates in the Old English word , meaning "a man of noble birth or rank". The word is cognate with the Old Norse, Scandinavian form ''jarl''. After the Norman Conquest, it became the equivalent of the continental count. In Scotland, it assimilated the concept of mormaer. Since the 1960s, earldoms have typically been created only for members of the British royal family, royal family. The last non-royal earldom, Earl of Stockton, was created in 1984 for Harold Macmillan, prime minister from 1957 to 1963. Alternative names for the rank equivalent to "earl" or "count" in the nobility structure are used in other countries, such as the ''hakushaku'' (伯爵) of the post-restoration Japanese Imperial era. Et ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Topham Hatt
The Fat Controller is a fictional character originating from ''The Railway Series'' books written by Reverend W. Awdry and his son, Christopher Awdry. In the first two books in the series ('' The Three Railway Engines'' and ''Thomas the Tank Engine'') he is known as The Fat Director, and as of the third book (''James the Red Engine'') he becomes The Fat Controller. In the introduction to the 1951 book ''Henry the Green Engine'', his real name is revealed to be Sir Topham Hatt. The Fat Controller also appears in the television series ''Thomas & Friends'', adapted from the books. On television, he was usually portrayed in the form of several different static figures made with either wood or lead during series one, and resin from series two onwards, but has been portrayed using CGI from the twelfth series onward. The term "fat controller" has since been adopted in various contexts in the English language, beyond the sphere of the original stories, usually in reference to some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sodor (fictional Island)
The Island of Sodor is a fictional island that is the primary setting for ''The Railway Series'' books by Wilbert Awdry and its television adaptation ''Thomas & Friends''. It lies in the Irish Sea between Cumbria and the Isle of Man. Inspiration and creation Awdry wanted a consistent set of locations for ''The Railway Series''. He wanted them to be in Great Britain, but sufficiently isolated from British Railways to allow him to write the stories he wanted. He was inspired during a 1950 visit to the Isle of Man, which forms the Diocese of Sodor and Man. Awdry, a Church of England cleric, noted that while there was an Isle of Man, there was no island of Sodor. He decided to create a fictional island of "Sodor" as the setting for his books. Sodor would be between England and the Isle of Man, isolated from the British railway system, but somewhere that readers could easily imagine. Awdry and his younger brother George worked out Sodor's history, geography, industry and language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
