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Falling Leaves (other)
Falling Leaves may refer to: * ''Falling Leaves'' (play), a 1924 play by the British writer Sutton Vane * ''Falling Leaves'' (1912 film), American short film * ''Falling Leaves'' (1966 film), Russian film * ''Falling Leaves'' (memoir), 1997 memoir of Chinese-American physician Adeline Yen Mah * Falling Leaves (radar network) * ''The Falling Leaves ''The Falling Leaves'' is a poem written by Margaret Postgate-Cole (1893–1980) in November 1915 about World War I. Cole was an English atheist, feminist, pacifist, and socialist; her pacifist views influenced her poetry. Her brother was jaile ...
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Falling Leaves (play)
''Falling Leaves'' is a 1924 play by the British writer Sutton Vane. It features a love triangle between three characters. It premiered at the Pleasure Gardens Theatre in Folkestone before transferring to the Little Theatre in the West End where it ran for 15 performances, failing to recapture the success of his play of the previous year ''Outward Bound'' despite the fact it starred Diana Hamilton who had also appeared in the earlier hit. The cast also included Allan Jeayes and Frank Vosper Frank Permain Vosper (15 December 1899, in London – 6 March 1937) was an English actor who appeared in both stage and film roles and a dramatist, playwright and screenwriter. Stage Vosper made his stage debut in 1919 and was best known for pl ...Wearing p.331 References Bibliography * Wearing, J. P. ''The London Stage 1920-1929: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel''. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. 1924 plays Plays by Sutton Vane {{1920s-play-stub ...
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Falling Leaves (1912 Film)
''Falling Leaves'' is a 1912 American silent short film by Alice Guy-Blaché, produced at Solax Studios. Starring Solax stock actors, the story concerns a child's earnest effort to keep her dying sister alive by naive means. A print of the film is preserved in the Library of Congress. Plot In the opening scene, Dr. Headley demonstrates the success of his cure for consumption. He is congratulated by his colleagues. Meanwhile, it is autumn and Winifred is seriously ill with consumption. Her mother and younger sister, Trixie, are distraught. The family doctor tells Winifred's parents that she will die by the time the last leaf falls. Trixie takes these words literally; after the child is tucked into bed, she sneaks outside and starts tying fallen leaves back on branches with string. Passerby Dr. Headley sees her and learns from her what she is doing. He is led into the house where he administers an injection of his serum cure. Three months later, Winifred is well on the way to reco ...
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Falling Leaves (1966 Film)
''Falling Leaves'' ( ka, გიორგობისთვე) is a 1966 Soviet drama film directed by Otar Iosseliani. The film was screened at the International Critics' Week of the 1968 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Ramaz Giorgobiani as Nico * Gogi Kharabadze as Otari * Marina Kartsivadze as Marine * Aleksandre Omiadze as Head of wine factory * Baadur Tsuladze as Archili * Tengiz Daushvili as Nodari * Bukhuti Zakariadze as Ilo * Akaki Kvantaliani as Daviti * Dodo Abashidze David "Dodo" Abashidze ( ka, დავით ოდოაბაშიძე; russian: Дави́д Ива́нович Абаши́дзе; 1 May 1924 – 26 January 1990) was a Soviet Georgian film actor and director. Abashidze, who joined ... as Rezo References External links * 1966 drama films Soviet-era films from Georgia (country) Soviet black-and-white films Films directed by Otar Iosseliani 1966 films Drama films from Georgia (country) Black-and-white films from Georgia (co ...
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Falling Leaves (memoir)
Adeline Yen Mah () is a Chinese-American author and physician. She grew up in Tianjin, Shanghai and Hong Kong, and is known for her autobiography ''Falling Leaves''. She is married to Professor Robert A. Mah with whom she has a daughter, and a son from a previous marriage. Life Yen Mah had an older sister called Lydia (Jun-pei) and three older brothers, Gregory (Zi-jie), Edgar (Zi-lin), and James (Zi-jun). She has stated in ''Falling Leaves'' that she did not use the real names of her siblings and their spouses to protect their identities but she did, however, use the real names of her father, stepmother, aunt and husband, while referring to her paternal grandparents only by the Chinese terms 'Ye Ye' and 'Nai Nai'. Yen Mah also writes of her grandfather's younger sister (Yan Shuzhen),
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Falling Leaves (radar Network)
Falling Leaves was an improvised ballistic missile early warning system of the United States Air Force. It was set up during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and networked 3 existing U.S. radars—2 Space Detection and Tracking System (SPADATS) radars and an SAGE radar stations, Aircraft Control and Warning general surveillance radar which was modified by Sperry Corporation to range, allowing detection in space near Cuba. The designation was assigned by the 9th Aerospace Defense Division, headquartered at Ent AFB, Colorado. Soviet R-12 Dvina IRBMs arrived in Cuba on September 8. Intelligence sources in Cuba then reported lengthy missiles transported through towns, and three R-12 sites were photographed by Lockheed U-2s by October 19. Afterwards, the "Cuban Missile Early Warning System (CMEWS)" radars were "realigned" to monitor for nuclear missile launches from the new Soviet launch sites. The Falling Leaves system used the following: *RCA AN/FPS-49 Radar Set prototype of 1961 Ma ...
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