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East Langdon
East Langdon is a village in the Dover district of Kent, England, and northeast from Dover town.
The population is included in the civil parish of Langdon
East Langdon was mentioned in the "Domesday Book".
The word 'Langdon' is "long hill" in Old English.
The first reference to the village, in 861, mentions one Langandune, but a reference in 1291 mentions Estlangedoun and Westlangedone, the latter village of West Langdon being located about to the northwest.
The church is dedicated to Saint Augustine.
The remains of West Langdon Abbey are nearby.
Illwinter Game Design
Illwinter Game Design is the name of a small software company in Sweden composed of Johan Karlsson and Kristoffer Osterman.
The company was started in the 1990s under the name "Bogus Game Design", but later changed its name.
Registered officially as Illwinter since September 18, 2001, the team's product catalogue includes two long running series of fantasy strategy games: "Conquest of Elysium" and "Dominions".
Illwinter's games are characterized by large amount of content, depth, lasting playability, support for multiple platforms (Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris and Windows included), good multiplayer support and simple visual and sound effects.
Labor division within the tiny team is simple: Kristoffer Osterman creates the units, spells and descriptions while Johan Karlsson makes everything else work.
Both Johan Karlsson and Kristoffer Osterman have expressed their love for role-playing games, especially Ars Magica and roguelikes.
Kristoffer Osterman teaches religion, math and social sciences as a primary occupation.
"Dominions 4" maintains a thriving online community.
Petrovskoye, Yaroslavl Oblast
Petrovskoye () is an urban locality (a work settlement) in Rostovsky District of Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, situated on a major highway leading from Moscow to the Russian North, about halfway between the towns of Rostov and Pereslavl-Zalessky.
Population:
It was first mentioned in a chronicle at 1207.
It was granted a town status and renamed Petrovsk in 1777.
By the mid-20th century the settlement declined, was demoted in status to that of a rural locality and renamed Petrovskoye.
It was granted urban-type settlement status in 1943.
Jaws: The Revenge
Jaws: The Revenge (also known as Jaws 4: The Revenge or Jaws 4) is a 1987 American horror thriller film produced and directed by Joseph Sargent, and starring Lorraine Gary, Lance Guest, Mario Van Peebles, and Michael Caine.
It is the third sequel to Steven Spielberg's "Jaws", and the fourth and final installment in the "Jaws" franchise.
It was the final theatrical film to be directed by Sargent.
The film focuses on a now-widowed Ellen Brody (Lorraine Gary) and her conviction that a great white shark is seeking revenge on her family, particularly when it kills her son, and follows her to the Bahamas.
"Jaws: The Revenge" was shot on location in New England and in the Bahamas, and completed on the Universal lot.
Like the first two films, Martha's Vineyard was the location of the fictional Amity Island for the opening scenes.
"Jaws: The Revenge" was heavily panned by film critics.
While production of the other three films in the series took around two years for each film, "Jaws: The Revenge" was made in less than nine months.
According to associate producer and production manager Frank Baur during the sequel's filming, "This ("Revenge") will be the fastest I have ever seen a major film planned and executed in all of my 35 years as a production manager."
On Amity Island, Martin Brody, famous for his role as the police chief and his heroism, has recently died from a heart attack.
Martin's widow, Ellen, still lives in Amity close to her younger son, Sean and his fiancée, Tiffany.
Sean now works as a police deputy like his father and when is dispatched to clear a log from a buoy a few days before Christmas, a great white shark appears and tears his arm off.
He screams for help, but the singing on the land drowns out his cries.
The shark continues to attack, sinking his boat and finally dragging him down.
Martin's older son, Michael, his wife, Carla and their five-year-old daughter, Thea, come to Amity for the funeral.
Michael is working in the Bahamas as a marine biologist and on his arrival, Ellen demands that he stops his work.
Having just received his first grant, Michael is reluctant.
Thea is able to convince Ellen to return to the Bahamas with them.
The pilot of their smaller plane named Hoagie takes an interest in Ellen when he flies them back.
Wanting to take her mind off her recent losses and finding herself attracted, she begins to spend time with him.
Michael introduces his mother to his partner Jake and his wife and they all spend Christmas and New Year's together.
A few days later, Michael, Jake and their crew encounter the shark, which followed the family all the way from Amity.
Jake is eager to do research on it because great white sharks have never been seen in the Bahamas due to the warm water.
Michael eventually agrees but asks him not to mention the shark to his family, including Ellen.
During the day, Ellen is able to keep her mind off the shark, but at night begins to have nightmares of being attacked by it.
She is also able to feel when the shark is about to attack one of her loved ones.
Jake decides to attach a device to the shark that can track it through its heartbeat.
Using chum to attract it, Jake stabs the device's tracking pole into the shark's side.
The next day, the shark chases Michael through a sunken ship, and he narrowly escapes.
Thea goes on an inflatable banana boat with her friend Margaret and her mother.
While Carla presents her new art sculpture, the shark attacks the back of the boat Thea is on since she is the second to last person.
However, the shark kills the adult holding her instead.
both Ellen and Carla run into the water to gather Thea and the other children off the boat.
After Thea is safe, Ellen boards Jake's boat to track down the shark, intending to kill it to save the rest of her family.
After hearing about what happened, Michael confesses he knew about the shark, infuriating Carla.
Michael and Jake are flown by Hoagie to search for Ellen, and they find the shark in pursuit of their boat, during the search, Hoagie explains to Michael about Ellen's belief that the shark that killed Sean is after her family.
When they find her, Hoagie lands the plane on the water, ordering Michael and Jake to swim to the boat as the shark drags the plane and Hoagie underwater.
Fortunately, Hoagie escapes from the shark, Jake and Michael hastily put together an explosive, powered by electrical impulses.
As Jake moves to the front of the boat, the shark lunges, giving it the chance to pull Jake under and maul him alive.
Jake, however, manages to get the explosive into the shark's mouth before he is taken underwater.
Michael begins blasting the shark with the impulses, which begin to drive it mad; it repeatedly jumps out of the water, roaring in pain.
Michael continues to blast the shark with the impulses, causing it to leap out of the water again, igniting the bomb.
Ellen steers the sailboat towards the shark while thinking back to Sean's demise, the shark's attack on Thea, and when her husband defeated the first shark.
The broken bowsprit impales the shark in the exact spot where the bomb is, causing it to explode on impact.
As the shark's corpse then sinks to the bottom of the ocean, Michael then hears Jake calling for help, seriously injured, but alive and conscious, floating in the water.
The four survive the deciding encounter and safely make it back to land.
Hoagie then flies Ellen back to Amity Island.
Joseph Sargent produced and directed the film.
He had worked with Lorraine Gary in 1973's "The Marcus-Nelson Murders", for which he won his first Directors Guild of America Award.
Indeed, Steven Spielberg cites this television film, which later spawned "Kojak", as motivation for casting Gary as Ellen Brody in the original "Jaws" film, besides the fact she was the wife of the studio's chief executive Sidney Sheinberg at that time.
In regards to "Revenge", Gary remarked in an interview: "I made a good deal on this film, but I didn't make as good a deal as I would have if I weren't married to Sid."
In an interview with the "Boston Herald", Sargent called "Revenge" "a ticking bomb waiting to go off.
... Sid Sheinberg (president of MCA Inc., parent company of Universal Pictures) expects a miracle – and we're going to make it happen."
Sargent got a call from Sheinberg in late September 1986, asking him to direct the fourth "Jaws" movie with no script yet written.
Said Sargent, "I didn't have time to laugh because Sid explained he wanted to do a quality picture about human beings.
When he told me, 'It's your baby, you produce and direct,' I accepted."
According to Sargent, Sheinberg "cut through all the slow lanes and got "Jaws: The Revenge" off and running."
In a 2006 interview, Sargent stated that the premise was born "out of a little bit of desperation to find something fresh to do with the shark.
We thought that maybe if we take a mystical point of view, and go for a little bit of ... magic, we might be able to find something interesting enough to sit through."
Principal photography for "Jaws: The Revenge" took place on location in New England and in the Bahamas, and completed on the Universal lot.
Like the first two films of the series, Martha's Vineyard was the location of the fictional Amity Island for the film's opening scenes.
Production commenced on February 2, 1987, by which time "snowstorms had blanketed" the island for almost a month, "providing a frosty backdrop for the opening scenes."
Because the sequel had to be ready for release by July of the same year and the mechanical shark had to be filmed in warmer temperatures, Martha's Vineyard only makes a cameo appearance in "Revenge".
In addition to the 124 cast and crew members, 250 local extras were also hired.
The majority of the extras were used as members of the local high school band, chorus and dramatic society that can be seen as the Brody's walk through the town, and during Sean's attack.
A local gravestone maker produced 51 slabs for the mock graveyard used for Sean's funeral.
The cast and crew moved to Nassau in the Bahamas on February 9, beginning principal photography there the next day.
Like the production of the first two films, they encountered many problems with varying weather conditions.
The location did not offer the "perfect world" that the 38-day shoot required.
Cover shots were filmed on shore and in interior sets.
The film was shot in the Super 35 format.
The special effects team, headed by Henry Millar, had arrived at South Beach, Nassau on January 12, 1987, almost a month before principal photography commenced there.
In the official press release, Millar says that when he became involved "we didn't even have a script ... but as the story developed and they started telling us all what they wanted ...
I knew this wasn't going to be like any other shark anyone had ever seen."
The shark was to be launched from atop an long platform, made from the trussed turret of a crane, and floated out into Clifton Bay.