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And there was the famous french architect Eugene Viollet-le-Duc (1814-1879) whose surname apparently means Purple-the-Duke.
And for another interpretation of the song's meaning, see pages 156 to 157 in How the West was Sung here:
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According to IMDB, in X-Men (2000) the exteriors of Xavier's Mansion were filmed at Parkwood Estate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkwood_Estate
And interiors of Xavier's mansion were filmed at Casa Loma, Toronto, Canada.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_Loma
And some unspecified scenes were filmed at the Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greystone_Mansion
So IMDB doesn't say that X-Men (2000) was filmed at Hatley Castle.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120903/locations?ref_=tt_dt_dt
And this also agrees:
http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/x/xmen.html#.Wkxd5N-nGUk
It is Auredon Prep School in Descendants (2015).
And the Queen mansion in starling City in Arrow (2012-).
Hatley Castle is also the Queen Mansion in Arrow (2012-) set in Starling City.
It is Auredon Prep School in Descendants (2015).
Hatley Castle has also been used as Auradon Prep School in the fictional Kingdom of Auredon in the Disney TV movie Descendants (2015) and in Descendants 2 (2017).
And the Queen mansion in Starling City in Arrow (2012-).
And the senator's house in The Changeling (1980).
And The place the Russian President leaves in a helicopter in Canadian Bacon (1995).
To clarify about X-Men, Hatley Castle is listed as a location in X-Men 2 (2003) (under the name Royal Roads), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), and X-Men: First Class (2011), but not in other X-Men movies. Professor Xavier's mansion and school is supposed to be in Westchester County, New York.
To also clarify, Masterminds is Masterminds (1997), Fierce People is Fierce People (2005), Smallville is the TV series Smallville (2001-2011), Poltergeist: The Legacy is the TV series Poltergeist: The Legacy (1996-1999), and The Duke is The Duke (1999).
As others have said, it was not filmed at "Ye Towers of Julius, London's lasting shame, with many a foul and midnight murder fed".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_London#/media/File:Tower_of_London_(Foto_Hilarmont).jpg
I forget whether they said it was the Tower of London in the episode. I assumed it was some fictional other castle in London, "the other Tower of London".
As others have said, "Terror Tower" was filmed at Casa Loma in Toronto, Canada, which looks a lot more like the castle in the episode.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_Loma#/media/File:Casa_Loma.JPG
Part 4.
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The idea that whales, apes, and proboscideans might possibly have intelligence levels similar to humans and - like members of the species Homo sapiens - might possibly be considered by objective observers to be semi intelligent or even fully intelligent and deserving of some or all of the rights of persons, is a fairly reasonable idea.
The claim that whales and dolphins are not intelligent because they have not always avoided being killed by humans is not a very strong argument. During the 20th century a hundred million or more humans were not intelligent enough to avoid being killed by other humans in various conflicts. And during that same 20th century billions of humans were not intelligent enough to escape being killed by bacteria and viruses. Some humans were even killed by lions and tigers and bears, oh my!, and by other predators and were eaten.
Part 3.
6. MaximRecoil certainly seems correct that McCoy is very much overdoing his scorn for the 1986 doctors and their proposed procedure. The best explanation for that is McCoy has a character flaw, a form of "presentism", a belief that 23rd century medicine is infinitely superior to 20th century medicine which is always totally ineffective - which many of us know is false from personal experience with 20th century medicine.
7. As I wrote under # 2, it is possible that the alien society that sent the probe and the probe itself receive whale songs via subspace frequencies generated by the sonic vibrations in the water. Thus the signals travel to the distant origin location of the probe many times fast than sound and even many times faster than light. And thus the probe receives those secondary subspace vibrations created by George and Gracie's whale songs.
Have you ever wondered how the probe calls to the whales in the oceans from orbit? If the probe makes sounds in orbit they can't reach the surface of the sea.
The probe probably uses on and off tractor beams to vibrate the air and the ocean to produce the whale song sounds it send to the ocean. In "A Taste of Armageddon" the Eminians attack the Enterprise with sonic disruptors.
DEPAUL: Screens firm, sir. Extremely powerful sonic vibrations. Decibels eighteen to the twelfth power. If those screens weren't up, we'd be totally disrupted by now.
Since the Enterprise isn't inside the atmosphere of Eminiar 7, the Eminian weapons should use extremely rapid on and off tractor beams to vibrate their targets, creating deadly sound inside them and tearing them apart. And the probe in orbit must use similar methods to create whale sounds in the atmosphere and oceans of Earth.
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Part 2.
4. If the handheld collection device transported individual neutrons from inside the reactor into a storage unit inside the collector, it could reduce the flux of neutrons inside the reactor and thus slow down the rate of the reaction and the amount of heat it generated and the amount of steam it produced to turn the generators and the amount of electrical energy produced. Thus collecting neutrons from the reactors could cause a "power drain" or more correctly a drop in the production of power which could be detected by the aircraft carrier crew and investigated.
Unfortunately Spock said "photons", not neutrons, so presumably was talking about X-rays and Gamma rays. As far as I know they don't play any role in fission reactions and so transporting them from the reactor into the collector wouldn't slow down the reactions or reduce the amount of power generated.
Possibly the creators actually changed Spock's words for some reasons of temporal security that I can't think of. But # 4 does seem like a good objection.
5. This is the dialog.
UHURA (OC): Admiral, ...are you there?
KIRK: Yes, Uhura, ...what's wrong?
[Bird-of-Prey bridge]
UHURA: I've found Chekov, sir. They're taking him to emergency surgery right now.
[Bird-of-Prey cargo bay]
KIRK: Uhura! ...Where!
UHURA (OC): Mercy Hospital.
KIRK: Mercy Hospital?
GILLIAN: That's in the Mission District.
UHURA (OC): They report his condition as critical.
[Bird-of-Prey bridge]
UHURA: He is not expected to survive.
This indicates that Uhura located Checkov by listening to official messages, not by using the Klingon ship's scanners.
Later Chekov is located:
KIRK: Here, I've got it. ...Let's go. ...He's being held in the security corridor one flight up. His condition is critical.
Maybe Uhuru used the scanners to locate Checkov and than called Kirk.
They certainly should have been able to beam out with Checkov once they got to the room. That is a very sound objection.
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Part 1.
1. Perhaps the creators of the probe send it to every planet where they stop detecting communications from cetacean-like beings. Perhaps the creators believe that the cetacean-like beings will already be extinct by the time they send the probe. The creators of the probe may have a lot of experience with the extinction of cetacean-like beings by land dwelling intelligent beings living on their planets. Thus they have calculated the average interval between such land dwelling intelligent beings gaining the power to exterminate the cetacean-like being and those land dwelling intelligent beings developing warp drive and then discovering how to use a star ship to travel in time.
So the creators of the probe assume that the cetacean-like beings are already extinct when they lose contact with them. They then wait until the hypothetical land dwelling intelligent beings should have discovered how to travel in time and send the probe to devastate their planet while sending signals of the sounds of the extinct cetacean-like beings down to the planet. Thus they give the land-dwelling natives the chance to recognize the "whale sound" equivalents and send a mission back in time to retrieve cetacean-like beings to repopulate the oceans and answer the probe. If the land dwelling intelligent beings realize the situation and successfully bring back cetacean-like beings from the past the probe will go away since the land dwelling intelligent beings will have done what the creators of the probe want. And if not the probe will sterilize the planet since the creators of the probe don't care about any land dwelling intelligent beings or non intelligent beings in the sea or on the land.
2. As TNG makes clear, subspace radio uses subspace radiation that travels much faster than light and is unknown to 21st century science. It is possible that the ordinary sonic vibrations in the ocean that are whale sounds also produce subspace radio waves that the alien probe can detect. Such subspace radio waves could travel many thousands of light years in a few centuries which might be the explanation why the creators of the probe sent it to Earth just a few centuries after the humpback whales went extinct.
3. The dialog goes like this:
SCOTT: Admiral, we have a serious problem. Would you please come down? It's these Klingon crystals, Admiral. The time-travel drained them. They're giving out. De-crystallising.
KIRK: Give me a round figure, Mister Scott.
SCOTT: Oh, twenty-four hours, give or take, staying cloaked. After that, Admiral, we're visible, ...and dead in the water. In any case, we won't have enough to break out of Earth's gravity, to say nothing of getting back home.
KIRK: I can't believe we've come this far only to be stopped by this! Is there no way to re-crystallise dilithium?
SCOTT: Sorry, sir. We can't even do that in the twenty-third century.
SPOCK: Admiral, there may be a twentieth century possibility.
KIRK: Explain.
SPOCK: If memory serves, there was a dubious flirtation with nuclear fission reactors resulting in toxic side effects. By the beginning of the fusion era, these reactors had been replaced, but at this time, we may be able to find some.
KIRK: I thought you said they were toxic.
SPOCK: We could construct a device to collect their high-energy photons safely. These photons could then be injected into the dilithium chamber, causing crystalline restructure. ...Theoretically.
As I see it there are two possibilities:
1) despite the obvious benefits of being able to recrystallise dilithium, Spock was the first person to think of a method of doing so.
a) Spock thought of it on the spur of the moment right then.
b) Spock thought of it earlier and had started a program to built a nuclear reactor to see if could be done. Mr. Scott had not yet heard of that program because there were no tests yet.
2) Other persons had thought of that method and had started a program to build a rector to test it. Spock had heard of that program but Mr. Scott had not yet heard of that program because there were no tests yet.
In any of those cases there would be a very short time between the first realization such a process was theoretically possible and the time that they needed to use such a process. A frighteningly short time.
Note that the colony planet Janus VI had used an antique PXK Pergium reactor for its power less than 20 years earlier. I presume that was a nuclear fission reactor. So there may have been some still in use in the time of The Voyage Home, though the one on Janus VI was the first that Mr. Scott had seen in 20 years.
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I also point out that Martin Stephens himself was born in 1949 or 1948, and thus should have been about 11 or 12 when the Innocents was filmed. And in the original story, I calculated that the events were happening about the 1840s.
In the Victorian era, lower class children as young as Miles and Flora (or Martin and Pamela to make it more real), and sometimes years younger, often had hard and dangerous jobs in factories and mines, with maiming or a gruesome death an ever present danger.
In the Victorian era, lower class boys as young as Miles or Martin, and sometimes younger, could join the American or British army and navy. The youngest person to enlist as a drummer boy in the British army was five, the youngest officially recorded age of any US drummer boys was five.
And it was not unknown for middle and upper class British boys to become officers at young ages. During the Napoleonic Wars, and for many decades into the Victorian era, it was usual for middle and upper class British naval officers - including more than one future king - to go to sea as children and learn seamanship and leadership skills by watching and by doing.
Thus the TV Tropes site has a trope called Plucky Middie.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PluckyMiddie
And the plucky middies also had to learn navigation techniques if they were to pass the test for lieutenant and have a chance to be promoted. Which means they had to learn trigonometry and similar math. So some upper class boys like Miles could be studying trigonometry years younger than most of us do.
And the point of this is sometimes kids don't "act their age" Sometimes kids act years younger and sometimes they act years older.
Those lancers sure looked like regulars to me.
It wouldn't make sense for the Union army to transport rebels captured in the east all the way to New Mexico, hundreds of miles from the nearest railroads.
In Escape from Fort Bravo Rebel prisoners are also being held in a union prison in Arizona or New Mexico. But in both movies it makes more sense to think that the Rebels were captured during General Sibley's invasion of New Mexico in 1862 and being in a remote corner of the war were not exchanged before the prisoner exchange program broke down. And apparently it would cost too much to transport the Rebel prisoners under guard back east to a real prison camp so they were kept under guard where they had been captured and where they would be likely to die of thirst or Apaches if they tried to escape.
Major Dundee is a regular army officer in the 5th US Cavalry. In real life the 5th Cavalry was in the east in 1864-65 with the Army of the Potomac. But this is the movies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5th_Cavalry_Regiment
It is quit possible that Dundee took a leave of absence from the regular army to serve in a higher rank in the United States Volunteers during the Civil War. He might have commanded a regiment or even a brigade at the Battle of Gettysburg where he may have disobeyed orders and been discharged from the Volunteers Then he may have been sent west to join his regular army regiment.
As for Captain Tyreen, maybe it took him some time after the beginning of the war in April 1961 to get commissioned as maybe a 2nd Lieutenant in the Rebel army. He might have risen to the rank of captain in apparently the 8th (insert name of state here) Cavalry by the time he was captured with his company. Maybe they were captured during the Rebel invasion of New Mexico in 1862. If they were captured that early they would probably have been exchanged before the system of exchange broke down later.
But if they were captured in Summer, 1862 and not exchanged they would have been in prison for two years by the beginning of the movie. If Tyreen had been imprisoned for 2 long years he might have felt that he would have been a colonel or a general by November, 1864 if he hadn't been captured.
It is very had to tell them apart, but I believe that the scene you are talking about is from the film known in English as Cosmos: War of the Planets (Anno zero - Guerra nello spazio), and not the film known in English as Battle of the Stars (Battaglie negli spazi Stellari).
Here is a quote from the review of Cosmos: War of the Planets in 100 Misspent Hours:
This was a new experience for me. Never in the eleven years that I’ve been writing these reviews have I ever spent so much time simply trying to figure out which the hell movie I just watched... Just about the only unambiguously distinguishing feature between them is the fact that Gisela Hahn appears in Battaglie negli Spazie Stellari (“Battles in the Stellar Spaces”) but not in Anno Zero: Guerra nello Spazio (“Year Zero: War in Space”), and it took me a good long while to dig up even that... For some idea of the chaos this has caused, check out the user reviews on the Internet Movie Database page for Battle of the Stars (as Battaglie negli Spazie Stellari may— and I emphasize may— have been called in English-language release); every review save one is actually talking about Cosmos: War of the Planets instead!...
http://www.1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewsa-d/cosmoswaroftheplanets.htm
He finds it hard to tell which is which. My contribution to telling them apart is in the thread "Robot Boy from Ganymede".
I'm not certain that any of you or I have the movies in this series straightened out.
I seem to remember that 2 movies in this series had identical beginnings but different endings.
My thread "Robot Boy From Ganymede?" is my contribution to attempting to tell Cosmos War of the Planets from Battle of the Stars.
There was an Austin and Ally episode "Boy Songs and Badges" (June 8, 2013) where Austin & co went camping with some scouts to get out of Austin singing his new song live on TV since he hadn't written it. But the TV crew followed them to the camp ground for Austin to sing it there and he was "saved by the bear" which appeared in the camp.
Ally said that you should yell loudly at a black bear and play dead with a brown bear - or vice versa - it doesn't matter since neither is recommended for either type of bear, and only black bears are found within a thousand miles of Miami. Naturally many people panicked and ran away screaming which you shouldn't do with large animals and for some reason the bear didn't chase and maul any of them.
In the Liv and Maddie episode "Flugelball-a-Rooney" (May 3,2015) Maddie's boyfriend Diggie returned from being a foreign exchange student in the fictional country of Tundrabania in the Arctic and introduced the Tundrabanian sport of Flugelball. He said that the old time Flugelball players wore blue whale bladders. So how could the "old time Tundrabanians" get enough blue whale bladders to equip two teams? I doubt if blue whale bladders could be preserved for a long time by the old time Tundrabanians.
Suppose that brontosaurs were still around and Diggie said the Tundtabanians used Brontosaur bladders for Fluegalball. How could the "old time Tunderbanians" with their primitive technology kill enough brontosaurs to outfit their teams with brontosaur bladders? Small blue whales are as long as brontosaurs and much heavier and they live in the alien environment of the ocean. How could the "old time Tundrabanians" collect enough blue whale bladders for a game?
Many western movies were shot at several different locations, sometimes hundreds of miles apart.
The western fort set in The Last Frontier is very distinctive, with the split level parade ground. It is also seen in The Seventh Cavalry and The Guns of Fort Petticoat. Thus it may have been built at some place that is listed as a filming location for all three of those movies, unless IMDB lists incomplete locations for them.
The fort in The Last Frontier is definitely not one of the "usual suspects" among movie forts like the fort at Corriganville or the Kanab Movie Fort.
It is also seen in The Seventh Cavalry and The Guns of Fort Petticoat.
The distinctive feature of this movie fort is the split level parade ground.
I don't know where it was built.
Most movie forts are far too small to hold their garrisons. Maybe the movie forts have several levels of basements underground, lit by kerosene lamps (kerosene made from petroleum was becoming available in the 1860s) for stables and barracks, accessed by stairs and ramps inside the buildings.
That's a goofy theory, but a bit more plausible than using Tardis technology to make the buildings bigger on the inside than on the outside!