User:MacGyverMagic/In Progress/AFC

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The following are AFC suggestions which I believe to be useful but which need a bit of fact-checking.

Herbert L. Becker first suggested by 24.203.199.202[edit]

This should be uploaded already, it is taking too long.

Dr. Herbert L. Becker (Born August 12, 1956 in Hollywood, FL) is the inventor and patent/copyright holder for BOIP (broadcasting over internet protocol) and the founder of IPTV (internet protocol television broadcasting). He is also a Nobel Prize laureate candidate. Author of many books, creator of the Masked Magician TV specials for FOX TV. Listed in Who's Who of the World, Who's Who of Entertainment, Who's Who of the South, Who's Who of USA. He was a magician during the 1970's.

Acted in movies and TV: Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D. (1991) .... Mr. Goldberg, Filmography as: Actor, Notable TV Guest Appearances Notable TV Guest Appearances "The Maury Povich Show" playing "Herbert Becker" 31 October 2001 "Bozo the Clown" playing "Herbert Becker" in episode: "Bozo Learns Magic" 10 January 1962 IMDB data base


Was once sued by David Copperfield in order to stop his book from being published, revealing how magicians do their tricks. Becker won the law suit and the book went on to become the biggest selling magic book in history (All The Secrets of Magic Revealed-published 1995). Becker has gone on to have 12 books published including such subjects as John Lennon and How to Type.

All The Secrets of Magic Revealed went on to out-sell all magic books ever written, more than 250,000 copies. Barnes & Nobles

A sample of book covers:

Not considered annoying by the public Am I Annoying? dot com

Becker made the Statue of Liberty vanish before a live audience for SternTV in 1996.

Becker and Copperfield eventually patched things up and the two have become the closest of friends.


Replaced Harry Houdini in the 1976 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records. Guinness Book link

Becker is married and is the father of seven children.

http://www.magicweb.com is the main site for more information on IPTV.


Herbert Becker exists and is involved in Internet broadcasting - see [1].More can be found at this corporate blurb, nobody can know that they're a "Nobel Prize Laurels candidate" (even if such a thing existed) since the Nobel doesn't release names of nominees for fifty years. Tearlach 22:47, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
And the claims of his performing magic? Zoe (216.234.130.130 22:57, 12 December 2005 (UTC))

Amongst others, Becker headlined at Radio City Music Hall in Dec. 1976 while with Guinness On Parade. He also headlined in Las Vegas and at the Steele Peir in NJ.


  • His book seems to exist, although I can't verify sales figures, and somehow his straightjacket record is only recorded by some club. The Guiness Book site makes no mention of the record at all. Has anyone got a paper version to check? - Mgm|(talk) 10:35, 15 December 2005 (UTC) * 1977 Guinness Book page 467, second paragraph. Sterling Publishers ISBN 0-8069-0016-4. It confirms that Becker set the record.
  • The sales figure is listed on the link at www.bn.com under the information on the book, it states that over 250,000 copies were sold. The photo is certainly that of Becker and can be verified from several other sites on the internet including Kensington Books and Stock Information Services.
  • I'll take the info and do some fact checking. - Mgm|(talk) 09:04, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Enterocronin by 128.62.94.228[edit]

Enterocronin is the hormone involved in the production of intestinal juice. The stimulus for its production is distention due to presence of food in the stomach.

Dynactin by 68.229.67.180[edit]

Dynactin is a large protein complex that attaches the motor protein dynein to both membranes and microtubules.

Vestal Review requested on December 19, 2005 by ???[edit]

[Vestal Review]http://www.vestalreview.net. is the oldest magazine dedicated to flash fiction. In its twenty-three quarterly issues since March 2000, Vestal Review has had the honor of publishing the works of many great writers, including Steve Almond, Katharine Weber, Mike Resnick, Aimee Bender, Sam Lipsyte, Kirk Nesset, Judith Cofer, Bruce Boston, Robert Boswell, Bruce Holland Rogers, Pamela Painter and Liz Rosenberg. Our contributors have been published in The New Yorker, Playboy, Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, Zoetrope, The Paris Review, The Gettysburg Review, The O'Henry Prize Stories, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, Alaska Quarterly Review and elsewhere. Their novels have been published by WW Norton, Random House, St. Martin's Press, Knopf and others. Vestal Review is an official Pushcart-nominating press. Vestal Review's stories have been reprinted in the Mammoth Book of Minuscule Fiction, Flash Writing, E2Ink anthologies and have been selected for the new WW Norton Anthology of Flash Fiction.

Vestal Review was featured on NPR in November 2004 http://www.wskg.com/OffThepage/2004-11-16-budman-offthepage.htm, and is a recipient of the Broome Council of the Arts grant.

Mildred Hubble requested by User:203.221.152.56 on January 4, 2006[edit]

Mildred Hubble - Young apprentice witch featured on the British fantasy comedy THE WORST WITCH/ITV/1998-2000 and the sequel series WEIRDSISTER COLLEGE: THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF THE WORST WITCH/ITV/2001. Mildred attends a special school for witches called Miss Cackle's Academy where she lives in a cold, windowless room with her cat, Tabby. Mildred earned a scholarship to the school by writing a creative essay. But, she herself was not born into a family of witches, but she aspires to master the arts of magic and earn her Witches Higher Certificate. And even though the school's gentle-nature headmistress, Miss Cackle, dubbed Mildred "The Worst Witch" she overlooks Mildred's mistakes because she sees that Mildred has the potential to be a truly good witch one day.

The first day of school Mildred started off on the wrong foot by flying into a bunch of dustbins. But, she was rescued by fellow student Maud Moonshine, who along with Ruby, Enid Nightshade (a prankster) and Jadu Wali became her friends.

Mildred's nemesis is teacher's pet, Ethel Hallow. She belittled Mildred by telling her "You have to come from a witch family to be a real witch." Drusilla Paddock is Ethel's nasty sidekick.

The Academy staff consisted of Miss Cackle, the headmistress (Agatha is her evil twin sister), Miss Constance Hardbroom (a strict disciplinarian, former headmistress and potion mistress), Miss Davina Bat, (Chanting Teacher), Miss Imogen Drill (P.E. Teacher), Mrs. Tapioca (school cook), Edgar Hellibore, the Chief Wizard of Hellibore's Academy (a visiting professor), Algernon Rowan-Webb (a wizard in training who used to be a frog) and Mr. Blossom (the Handyman).

After passing her basic witch training, Mildred Hubble transferred to a special school for witches and wizards called Weirdsister College to further develop her unique and emerging abilities and hopefully learn to cope with her fear of the dark.

Uniform[edit]

Jill Murphy has said that the very smart uniform that the young apprentice witches wear is based on the one she use to wear in her schooldays (without the witch hat), the uniform is made up of a pinafore, blouse (long sleeve at first, but made shot sleeve later much to Miss Hardbroom's disaproveal) and a tie. the colour of the uniform is orange and black in the 1986 Fairuza Balk film, in the the tv series starring Georgina Sherrington the colour of the uniform is balck and blue with some gray trim (on the tie and hat)

Sources[edit]

The Worst Witch - First published in 1974
The Worst Witch Strikes Again - First published in 1980
A Bad Spell for the Worst Witch - First published in 1982
The Worst Witch All At Sea - First published in 1993
The Worst Witch Saves the Day - First published in 2005

Category:Fictional witches Category:Fictional schoolgirls

Gazzo Macee[edit]

Gazzo Macee (b. 1960) is the performance moniker of Gary Osbourne, a magician born in Australia who was adopted by parents from the United Kingdom. He is best known for performing street magic. Gazzo's career in deception began purportedly as a lookout in the later days of Cracker Parker's three card monte mob. He is known for his abrasive, Don Rickles-style humor and his unique presentation of Dai Vernon's cups and balls routine.

Sources[edit]

66.54.241.20 19:10, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Godrevy Lighthouse[edit]

(currently has section in Godrevy)
Godrevy Lighthouse was built to protect shipping using Hayle, which was an important town in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It became operational in 1859 and was turned over to automatic operation in 1934. It is still being used as a navigational aid today, having been converted to solar power.

It was the inspiration for Virginia Woolf's novel To the Lighthouse.

Sources[edit]

220.239.172.8 12:02, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

The Slave Ship Hannibal (suggested by 131.183.228.73 on September 18, 2006)[edit]

Hannibal was the name of a ship which was used during the years of 1693 and 1694 to transport slaves. The ship is most remembered for its disastrous voyage during the year 1694. The ship itself weighed closed to three hundred and fifty tons or approximately seven hundred thousand pounds. Hannibal was led by a captain by the name of John Phillips.

The Captain – John Phillips was a British captain and a member of the Royal African Company. He became deaf on the disastrous voyage in 1694 and did not command any more voyages following that one.

The Disastrous Voyage, which occurred in 1694, began as any other slave trade during that time did. There were seven hundred slaves which were to be taken to the “New World” from Africa by means of the Middle Passage. Upon boarding the ship the slaves were handcuffed to one another in pairs of two. They were handcuffed on their wrist and put in shackles around their legs. These constraints were said to lead to many quarrels amongst the slaves due to falling into one another.

The actual voyage which began with seven hundred became disastrous because during the course of the voyage the number of slaves diminished from the original seven hundred to only arriving in the “New World” with three hundred and eighty. This means on the course of the voyage three hundred and twenty slaves died and were dumped overboard by the captain John Phillips. Slaves may have been thrown overboard to insure that insurance could be collected on the slaves rather than just a pure profit lose. Also some slaves may have jumped out of pure fear of being a slave in an unknown land.


Sources[edit]

131.183.228.73 02:18, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

  • Need a little POV-cleaning, but otherwise interesting subject. - Mgm|(talk) 10:11, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
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