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NOVA - The Miracle of Life

Each minute, all over the world, a baby is born. An everyday occurrence, yet each birth is the culmination of one of nature's most complex, mysterious, and seemingly miraculous processes. A dramatic breakthrough in science and cinematography, the Peabody® award-winning The Miracle of Life takes you on an incredible voyage through the human body as a new life begins. World-renowned Swedish photographer Lennart Nilsson presents a spectacular look at a microscopic world

Still startlingly beautiful after several years, Nova's The Miracle of Life records human conception for the first time on film, and much more. Living, functioning reproductive systems are laid bare to the camera, and there is so much to explore and absorb that Nova's expert guidance is much needed and appreciated. The viewer follows an egg from its follicular development in an ovary, through the delicate, flowery fallopian tube for fertilization, and on to the uterus for development and eventual birth. Likewise, we follow the shorter journey of millions of sperm as they develop and strive mightily to reach the egg. (There isn't a man alive who can watch intraurethral footage without squirming--see for yourself!) Photographer Lennart Nilsson has shown us something profoundly beautiful and yet has left its fundamental mystery intact. The Miracle of Life is a rarity: a documentary that is also art. --Rob Lightner

Lillian Russell
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For the biographical film, see Lillian Russell (film).
Lillian Russell

Lillian Russell, 1897
BornHelen Louise Leonard
December 4, 1861
Clinton, Iowa, U.S.
DiedJune 6, 1922 (aged 60)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
OccupationActress/Singer
Years active1879–1919
Lillian Russell (December 4, 1861 – June 6, 1922) was an American actress and singer. She became one of the most famous actresses and singers of the late 19th century and early 20th century, known for her beauty and style, as well as for her voice and stage presence.

Russell was born in Iowa but raised in Chicago. Her parents separated when she was eighteen, and she moved to New York with her mother. She quickly began to perform professionally, singing for Tony Pastor and playing roles in comic opera, including Gilbert and Sullivan works. She married composer Edward Solomon in 1884 and created roles in several of his operas in London, but in 1886 he was arrested for bigamy. Russell was married four times, but her longest relationship was with Diamond Jim Brady, who supported her extravagant lifestyle for four decades.

In 1885, Russell returned to New York and continued to star in operetta and musical theatre. For many years, she was the foremost singer of operettas in America, performing continuously through the end of the nineteenth century. In 1899, she joined the Weber and Fields's Music Hall, where she starred for five years. After 1904, she began to have vocal difficulties and switched to dramatic roles. She later returned to musical roles in vaudeville, however, finally retiring from performing around 1919. In later years, Russell wrote a newspaper column, advocated women's suffrage and was a popular lecturer.

Contents [hide]
1 Life and career
1.1 Early career
1.2 Later years
2 Legacy
3 See also
4 Notes
5 References
6 External links
[edit]Life and career

Russell was born Helen Louise Leonard in Clinton, Iowa. Her father was newspaper publisher Charles E. Leonard, and her mother was the feminist Cynthia Leonard, the first woman to run for mayor of New York City. Her family moved to Chicago by 1865, where she attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart (from age 7 to 15) and the Park Institute. Her father became a partner in the printing firm of Knight & Leonard, and her mother became active in the women's rights movement. Russell, called "Nellie" as a child, excelled at school theatricals. In her teens, she studied music privately and sang in choirs. In December 1877, she performed in an amateur production of Time Tries All at Chickering Hall in Chicago.[1]

[edit]Early career
When Russell was eighteen, her parents separated, and she and her mother moved to New York City. She soon became engaged to Walter Sinn, but broke off the engagement when she immediately found some success in the chorus of the Brooklyn Park Theatre.[1] She studied singing under Leopold Damrosch. In November 1879, she made her first appearance on Broadway at Tony Pastor's Casino Theater, billed as "an English Ballad Singer." Pastor, known as the father of vaudeville, was responsible for introducing many well-known performers.[2]



in Patience, 1882
She joined the chorus of a touring production of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore in 1879 and two weeks later married the orchestra leader Harry Braham after she found she was pregnant. She gave birth to a son, also named Harry, but the baby died after being stuck with a diaper pin by his nanny; the pin penetrated his stomach.[3] In 1881, she played the leading soprano role of Mabel in a burlesque of The Pirates of Penzance at Pastor's theatre. She next played at the Bijou Theatre on Broadway as Djenna in The Great Mogul and with the McCaull Opera Company played Bathilda in Olivette.[1] She also played the title role in Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience and Aline in The Sorcerer. Returning to Pastor's Casino Theatre in 1883, she played Phoebe in Billee Taylor, composed by Edward Solomon, who was serving as music director for Pastor.

Russell married Solomon in 1884, a year after their daughter, Dorothy Lillian Russell,[4] was born and travelled with him to England. There, she first played Virginia at the Gaiety Theatre in Solomon and Stephens's Paul and Virginia, followed by the title characters in Solomon's Polly and Grundy and Solomon's Pocahontas. While in London, she was engaged to create the title role of Gilbert and Sullivan's Princess Ida, but she clashed with W. S. Gilbert and was dismissed during rehearsals.[5] She then returned to America, touring for Pastor in Solomon's comic operas and playing in New York theatres or on tour in Gilbert and Sullivan and in operettas.[1] In 1886, Solomon was arrested for bigamy, since his previous marriage had not been dissolved. Russell obtained a divorce from Solomon in 1893.[6]

During these years, Russell continued to star in comic operas and other musical theatre. In 1887, she starred as

[18:03] Andrei Vendetta: He looks to stephan. "If lady no alright and no stand..." He moves to fall from his chair and give it a shove down the stairs towards them. "Use chair, get to place with bandaids and make her no leak no more."
[18:04] Stephan Frontenac turns around hearing Andrei, touched by his kindness. He pulls out a bunch of bill (that someday someone will rob him for carrying all the time and places them in Drei's hand "Thank you, I owe you a favor, a big favor."
[18:05] Fugazi Smalls: "That leak, is the protective sac of water her baby was suspended in dear, she'd going to soon be pushing a very large bundle of flesh out of what, at the moment, is a very small hole" she'd keep her smirk to herself this time, not wanting to confuse Andrei
[18:05] Kay pushes the door to the church open and stalks inside, her eyes darting over each person withen, not here about medical, but rather curisoity


[18:07] Fugazi Smalls: "...which I suspect will be very very very painful" she'd finish
[18:10] beth Latynina just begins to pant as another wave of pain hits to belly glaring over to Fu as now just screams in a low whimper as whole body tenses up," the baby is comming Stephan.." as sucking in an breath then when that wave passes head falling forward as eyes close
[18:11] Andrei Vendetta: He glances down at the credits, stuffing it into his pocket, not knowing what else to do with them. He shrugs slowly. "Get lady to Doctor place... Make her no leak."
[18:12] Eamon Cale is Online
[18:13] Stephan Frontenac helping Beth into the wheel chair he thinks about her statement, and thinks about her last scream "Just relax Beth, it's coming but not this second." At least he hopes so, he's seen too many suprise delivering in the years in the lab to be certain.
[18:13] Stephan Frontenac: (( sorry, forgot I had not pressed enter))
[18:13] Kay blinks her translucent eyelids and speaks up to ask "Thissss isss human sssacrafice?"
[18:14] Fugazi Smalls: "Actually, she's about to give birth. Probably sometime over the next twelve to one hundred twenty hours or so"
[18:15] Wearable Wheelchair (L-frame) 3.0: Click me to adjust height.
[18:16] Stephan Frontenac looks at the apparent lizard hybrid when he hears about human sacrifice and frowns that he doesn't have his tazer. Eamon would get mad at him shooting someone in the church. He yells, letting his frustration about everything out on Kay "Give birth you ugly fuck of a thing. Go hide under a rock before someone steps on you!"
[18:18] Lisandra Ruby opens the door of the church and walks tentatively toward the group of people asking "did someone need medical attention?"
[18:18] beth Latynina feels as Stephan helps set her in the wheelchair panting when another spams tenses ripping along her belly," tell her to shut up.." pointing to Fu as beads of sweat clinging to face. Moans panting even harder as did not know it would hurt like this.
[18:19] Alexion Ivercourt followed Lis in, still drawn to her sway whenever he walked behind her, his eyes taking in the scene
[18:20] Alexion Ivercourt paled.... that woman looke pregnant. He hopes this wasn't one of "those" call-outs!
[18:20] Kay narrows her eyes at the male and hisses "I do not live under rocksss....and sssuch a messsy thing for humansss..."
[18:21] Stephan Frontenac seeing no one is attacking him and no emergency staff are coming, he decides to wheel Beth to the MCMC. Despite his rish and panic, after taking two steps, he turns and bows slightly to Fu in farewell and hurries towards the doors.
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[18:27] beth Latynina lucky for Stephan she does not see that bow as she is to busy at the moment endoring intense pain having his daughter. Screaming in pain once more as breath comes in short blowing pants just snap out at Stephan," don't even think about touching me for an long time buster.." groaning then spasms with another pain
[18:27] Andrei Vendetta: He furrows his brow at the people gathering then glances over to Fu. "If gonna be really painful. Andrei glad no put woman through such to make Andrei. " He glances over to Beth. Sympathetically taking one of his painkiller numbed legs and crossing it over the other. "if hole small as piss hole... That gonna REALLY hurt." He then swallows coming to a realization. "She no gonna die.... is she?"
[18:28] Kay: /mew shrugs, losing intrest and heads off for RL rest
[18:28] Fugazi Smalls: "No dear, if it becomes too difficult for her they'll simply cut the baby out of her belly and give her a nice big scar to blame the child for the rest of it's life"
[18:28] Stephan Frontenac rushes out not bothering to answer anyone, thinking if he could not touch Beth fine, it would give him moral justification to touch everyone and everything else.

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