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Gatecon
Gatecon is a fan convention centered on the ''Stargate'' television franchise. The first Gatecon was held in 2000 in Vancouver, Canada, with the convention being held annually until 2008. Since 2008 the event has been held sporadically. The event has included tours of the ''Stargate SG-1'' (1997–2006), ''Stargate Atlantis'' (2004–2009) and ''Stargate Universe'' (2010–2011) sets at The Bridge Studios. A number of different charities have been supported by Gatecon, including Make A Wish Foundation, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and Cystic Fibrosis Canada, with MGM and the shows creators providing props and memorabilia to be auctioned off. History The event was conceived by four fans of the series: Allan Gowen from Australia, Sue Seeley from the United States and Richard Pasco and Kathryn Rogers from the United Kingdom. The group first came up with the idea in 1998 and spent the following two years trying to attract the attention of MGM and Showtime, before holding the fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Gatecon is a fan convention centered on the ''Stargate'' television franchise. The first Gatecon was held in 2000 in Vancouver, Canada, with the convention being held annually until 2008. Since 2008 the event has been held sporadically. The event has included tours of the ''Stargate SG-1'' (1997–2006), ''Stargate Atlantis'' (2004–2009) and ''Stargate Universe'' (2010–2011) sets at The Bridge Studios. A number of different charities have been supported by Gatecon, including Make A Wish Foundation, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and Cystic Fibrosis Canada, with MGM and the shows creators providing props and memorabilia to be auctioned off. History The event was conceived by four fans of the series: Allan Gowen from Australia, Sue Seeley from the United States and Richard Pasco and Kathryn Rogers from the United Kingdom. The group first came up with the idea in 1998 and spent the following two years trying to attract the attention of MGM and Showtime, before holding the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stargate SG-1
''Stargate SG-1'' (often stylized in all caps, or abbreviated ''SG-1'') is a military science fiction adventure television series within Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's ''Stargate'' franchise. The show, created by Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner, is based on the 1994 science fiction film ''Stargate'' by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich. The television series was filmed in and around the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The series premiered on Showtime on July 27, 1997 and moved to the Sci Fi Channel on June 7, 2002; the final episode first aired on Sky1 on March 13, 2007. The story of ''Stargate SG-1'' begins about a year after the events of the feature film when the United States government learns that an ancient alien device called the Stargate can access a network of such devices on a multitude of planets and in space. SG-1 is an elite United States Air Force special operations team, one of about 20 teams from Earth who explore the galaxy and defend against alien threats ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MGM Television
MGM Television Worldwide Group and Digital (alternatively Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television Group and Digital, commonly known as MGM Television and then-known as MGM/UA Television; common metonym: Lion) is an American television production/distribution studio launched in 1956 as "MGM-TV" as a division of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. From 2005 to 2006, MGM television programs were distributed by Sony Pictures Television (as a result from a Sony-led consortium buying MGM). Since May 31, 2006, MGM Television has resumed sole production and distribution of its programs on television. MGM Television has rejoined the first-run syndication market for the first time in many years with ''Paternity Court''. Background Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer first used television for promotional purposes having a tie in with ''The Ed Sullivan Show'' (on CBS) in the early 1950s. When ''The Ed Sullivan Show'' switched to 20th Century Fox, however, MGM attempted to arrange a promotional agreement with NBC, but cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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I, or i, is the ninth letter and the third vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''i'' (pronounced ), plural ''ies''. History In the Phoenician alphabet, the letter may have originated in a hieroglyph for an arm that represented a voiced pharyngeal fricative () in Egyptian, but was reassigned to (as in English "yes") by Semites, because their word for "arm" began with that sound. This letter could also be used to represent , the close front unrounded vowel, mainly in foreign words. The Greeks adopted a form of this Phoenician ''yodh'' as their letter ''iota'' () to represent , the same as in the Old Italic alphabet. In Latin (as in Modern Greek), it was also used to represent and this use persists in the languages that descended from Latin. The modern letter ' j' originated as a variation of 'i', and both were used interchangeably for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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