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  2. The Professor and the Madman (film) - Wikipedia

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    The film is about professor James Murray, who in 1879 became director of an Oxford University Press project, The New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (now known as the Oxford English Dictionary) and the man who became his friend and colleague, W. C. Minor, a doctor who submitted more than 10,000 entries while he was confined at ...

  3. Leaving Los Angeles: Why the film industry is ditching ... - AOL

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    While the power of Los Angeles is dispersing, no single "new Hollywood" is coming to take its place. The end of Peak TV has contracted employment all over — the total number of jobs in the ...

  4. James Murray (lexicographer) - Wikipedia

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    The blue plaque at 78 Banbury Road The erstwhile home of James Murray at 78 Banbury Road, Oxford: the blue plaque was installed in 2002. On 1 March 1879, a formal agreement was put in place to the effect that Murray was to edit a new English Dictionary, which would eventually become the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). It was expected to take ...

  5. Oxford English Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house. The dictionary, which published its first edition in 1884, traces the historical development of the English language, providing a comprehensive resource to ...

  6. Los Angeles Press Club - Wikipedia

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    The Los Angeles Press Club is an American journalism organization founded in 1913. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It honors journalists through its annual National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards and SoCal Journalism Awards . [ 3 ]

  7. Glossary of journalism - Wikipedia

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    See also References External links A advocacy journalism A type of journalism which deliberately adopts a non- objective viewpoint, usually committed to the endorsement of a particular social or political cause, policy, campaign, organization, demographic, or individual. alternative journalism A type of journalism practiced in alternative media, typically by open, participatory, non ...

  8. List of films set in Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    In the history of motion pictures in the United States, many films have been set in Los Angeles respectively in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, or a fictionalized version thereof. The following is a list of some of the more memorable films set in Los Angeles, however the list includes a number of films which only have a tenuous connection to ...

  9. Arnold Wesker - Wikipedia

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    Sir Arnold Wesker FRSL (24 May 1932 – 12 April 2016) was an English dramatist.He was the author of 50 plays, four volumes of short stories, two volumes of essays, much journalism and a book on the subject, a children's book, some poetry, and other assorted writings.