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Mighty Atom (other)
Mighty Atom may refer to: People Sports * Jimmy Wilde, a Welsh boxer * Sydney Wooderson, an English athlete * Joe Greenstein, a strongman * Barbara Buttrick, an English female boxer Other fields * Mildred Albert, an American fashion show producer and fashion personality * Boy Bruce, the Mighty Atom, an early stage name of the British entertainer Bruce Forsyth * Albert Power (priest), Irish priest, academic and author Film and television * "The Mighty Atom" (''Thunderbirds''), the 14th episode of the first season of the Supermarionation television series ''Thunderbirds'' * ''Mighty Atom'' (TV series), a 1959 Japanese Tokusatsu live action TV show * ''The Mighty Atom'', a 1958 animated film featuring Reddy Kilowatt Other uses * ''Mighty Atom'' (1988 video game), published by Konami * ''Mighty Atom'' (1994 video game), published by Banpresto * ''Mighty Atom'', the original Japanese name for the manga comic series ''Astro Boy'' created by Osamu Tezuka * Mighty Atom Records, a Welsh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Wilde
William James Wilde (15 May 1892 – 10 March 1969) was a Welsh professional boxer who competed from 1911 to 1923. He held the IBU world flyweight title in 1916, the EBU European flyweight title twice; firstly in 1914 and again from 1916 to 1917, the BBBofC British flyweight title in 1916 and the National Sporting Club's British flyweight title from 1916 to 1918. Often regarded as the greatest British fighter of all time, he was the first official world flyweight champion and was rated by American boxing writer Nat Fleischer, as well as many other professionals and fans including former boxer, trainer, manager and promoter, Charley 'Broadway' Rose, as "the Greatest Flyweight Boxer Ever". Wilde earned various nicknames such as, "The Mighty Atom," "Ghost with the Hammer in His Hand" and "The Tylorstown Terror" due to his bludgeoning punching power. While reigning as the world's greatest flyweight, Wilde would take on bantamweights and even featherweights, and knock them out. As w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney Wooderson
Sydney Charles Wooderson Order of the British Empire, MBE (30 August 1914 – 21 December 2006), dubbed "The Mighty Atom", was an England, English Track and field athletics, athlete whose peak career was in the 1930s and 1940s. He set the world mile record of 4:06.4 at London’s Motspur Park on 28 August 1937. This record stood for nearly five years. Career Born in Camberwell, London, he was 5 ft 6 in and weighed less than 9 stone (126 lbs). He attended Sutton Valence School, Kent. At 18 he became the first British schoolboy to break 4min 30sec for the mile. He won the British mile title for the five years up to the outbreak of the war in 1939. In 1934 he won the silver medal in the one mile event at the British Empire Games. At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, he suffered an ankle injury and failed to qualify for the 1500 metres final. However, in 1937, after surgery, his performance increased and culminated in his world mile record of 4:06.4 in 1937. In 1938 he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Greenstein
Joseph L. Greenstein (January 2, 1893 – October 8, 1977), better known as The Mighty Atom, was a 20th-century strongman. Early life Greenstein was born to a Jewish family in Suwałki, Poland, in 1893. As a child he suffered from respiratory ailments. When he was 14, a team of doctors predicted he would die from tuberculosis. Around that time, he became acquainted with a Russian circus strongman, Champion Volanko, who mentored Greenstein. Greenstein traveled with Volanko and the Issakoff Brothers Circus for eighteen months, learning the strongman's training regimen. After this, he returned to Poland and married his wife, Leah. Career He began his career as a wrestler. However, due in part to rising anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe, he then left for the United States. He first went to Galveston, Texas, working as a dockworker and oil field worker. He also wrestled professionally at this time as Kid Greenstein. In 1914, The Houston Daily Post reported that a friend of Greenst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Buttrick
Barbara Buttrick (born 3 December 1929), nicknamed "Battling Barbara", is a retired British boxer and a world champion in women's boxing in the 1940s and 1950s. Originally from England, Buttrick is considered a pioneer of women's professional boxing. Professional career Buttrick was born in Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire, England in 1930. She became a shorthand typist in an office in the West End of London. Known as "The Mighty Atom of the Ring", Buttrick, at 4′ 11″, fought from 98 lbs. to being the World's unbeaten flyweight (112) and bantamweight (118) champion from 1950 to 1960. Buttrick started her boxing career in 1948, touring Europe with carnivals as a bantamweight in the boxing booth. She went to the United States in the mid-1950s, joined the carnival circuit, but left because the American carnivals were rougher than the European ones. She then fought professionally in Canada, Chicago, and southern Florida. One of the Canadian matches became the first wome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mildred Albert
Mildred Elizabeth Albert (née Levine; January 14, 1905 – August 26, 1991) was an American fashion commentator, modeling agency director, fashion show producer, radio and television personality, and society columnist. Known as the "Mighty Atom" and Boston's "First Lady of Fashion", she produced thousands of fashion shows during her career. She founded the Academie Moderne finishing school in 1936 and co-founded the Hart Model Agency in 1944. After selling both concerns in 1981, she remained active on the Boston fashion scene, covering fashion shows and hosting charity benefits, which earned her the title of "official grande dame" of Boston. Early life and marriage Mildred Elizabeth Levine was the youngest of four children born in Russia to Thomas Levine and Elizabeth Sugarman Levine. The family immigrated to the United States when Mildred was three months old, settling in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Her father worked in construction and real estate development in Brookline. She gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Forsyth
Sir Bruce Joseph Forsyth-Johnson (22 February 1928 – 18 August 2017) was a British entertainer and presenter whose career spanned more than 70 years. Forsyth came to national attention from the late 1950s through the ITV series ''Sunday Night at the London Palladium''. He went on to host several game shows, including ''The Generation Game'', ''Play Your Cards Right'', ''The Price Is Right'' and ''You Bet!''. He co-presented ''Strictly Come Dancing'' from 2004 to 2013. In 2012, ''Guinness World Records'' recognised Forsyth as having the longest television career for a male entertainer. Early life Forsyth was born on Victoria Road in Edmonton, Middlesex on 22 February 1928, the son of Florence Ada (''née'' Pocknell) and John Thomas Forsyth-Johnson. His family owned a car repair garage and, as members of the Salvation Army, his parents played brass instruments; his mother was a singer. His great-grandfather Joseph Forsyth Johnson (1840–1906) was a landscape architect who work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Power (priest)
Albert Power SJ (12 November 1870 – 12 October 1948) was a Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, academic and author. He was considered to be one of the best-known Jesuit priests in Australia and had the nickname "The Mighty Atom". Biography Early years Albert Power was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1870. His education started at Belvedere College, Dublin, and continued at Tullabeg College, County Offaly. After Tullabeg College he studied at Milltown Park Theological College, Dublin. He was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest in 1906 in the Society of Jesus. Career After his ordination, Power became the director of studies at Riverview College (now called Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview) in Sydney for six years (c. 1910). Power returned to Europe to study philosophy and literature in Valkenburg, Holland. He was there for two years and then returned to Milltown Park Theological College, Dublin, to study the same subjects. He lectured in theology, Scripture and ecclesiastic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mighty Atom (Thunderbirds)
"The Mighty Atom" is an episode of '' Thunderbirds'', a British Supermarionation television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and filmed by their production company AP Films for ITC Entertainment. Written by Dennis Spooner and directed by David Lane, it was first broadcast on 30 December 1965 on ATV Midlands as the 14th episode of Series One. It is the sixth episode in the official running order. Set in the 2060s, the series follows the exploits of International Rescue, an organisation that uses technologically-advanced rescue vehicles to save human life. The main characters are ex-astronaut Jeff Tracy, founder of International Rescue, and his five adult sons, who pilot the organisation's main vehicles: the ''Thunderbird'' machines. In "The Mighty Atom", the Tracys' nemesis the Hood attacks atomic irrigation plants in Australia and the Sahara. Plot Some time before the creation of International Rescue, the Hood (voiced by Ray Barrett) is spying on an atomic-powered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mighty Atom (TV Series)
is a Japanese black-and-white Tokusatsu live action TV drama that aired on MBS from March 7, 1959 to May 28, 1960 for a total of 65 episodes split into five parts. It was produced for Mainichi Broadcasting System, sponsored by Lotte Corporation, by Matsuzaki Production, which was founded by Keiji Matsuzaki, who worked with Eiji Tsuburaya as a special effects director before the war and was a producer at Toho. It is the first adaptation of Osamu Tezuka's ''Mighty Atom'' (a.k.a. ''Astro Boy'') manga comic book series and predates the 1963 '' Mighty Atom'' (''Astro Boy'') anime. The plot of the TV series has less science fiction elements than the original, and is more in line with the detective hero stories of the time, with a focus on fighting gangsters. In the original, the story takes place in the 21st century, but according to Atom's dialogue in the final episode of Part 2, the historical background of this series is 1959, which is the same year as the broadcast. Although the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reddy Kilowatt
Reddy Kilowatt is a cartoon character that served as a corporate spokesman for electricity generation in the United States and other countries for over seven decades. Currently, the Reddy Kilowatt trademark is owned by Xcel Energy. Description Reddy Kilowatt is drawn as a stick figure whose body, limbs, and hair are made of stylized lightning, lightning-bolts and whose bulbous head has a light bulb for a nose and AC power plugs and sockets, wall outlets for ears. Conception Reddy Kilowatt made his first published appearance on March 14, 1926, in an advertisement in ''The Birmingham News'' for the Alabama Power Company (APC). The character was the brainchild of the company's 40-year-old commercial manager, Ashton B. Collins, Sr. Like other electric utilities of the period, APC was seeking to grow consumer demand for electrical power. Commercially viable Alternating current, AC generating stations had begun powering North American streets and homes by the end of the 19th century. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mighty Atom (1988 Video Game)
is a side-scrolling platform game published by Konami based on the manga and anime franchise '' Mighty Atom'' (Astro Boy in English) by Osamu Tezuka. The game was released exclusively in Japan for the Famicom on February 26, 1988. Gameplay The game consists of a total of ten stages, which the player must traverse in a side scrolling, platforming fashion, while figuring out riddles along the way. The game's objective is to recover the money that was stolen from Professor Ochanomizu's lab. Instead of the usual extra lives, Atom's remaining life energy is determined by the amount of uranium (abbreviated "uran" in the game) he has left in his disposal. Atom begins each stage with 300 uran points, that will gradually decrease with each second. Every time Atom gets hit by certain enemies, falls from a pitfall, or runs out of time, the professor will use his remaining uran points to rebuild Atom. The player can also summon the professor during gameplay to replenish their uran points ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mighty Atom (1994 Video Game)
is a 1994 side-scrolling action game released by Banpresto for the Super Famicom The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), commonly shortened to Super NES or Super Nintendo, is a Fourth generation of video game consoles, 16-bit home video game console developed by Nintendo that was released in 1990 in Japan and South ... based on the Tetsuwan Atom series. Plot The game follow the story of the 1960s series with several designs from the 1980 series thrown in like Uran's and young Atlas' designs. External links 1994 video games Astro Boy video games Banpresto games Minato Giken games Superhero video games Japan-exclusive video games Platform games Super Nintendo Entertainment System games Super Nintendo Entertainment System-only games Video games developed in Japan {{Platform-videogame-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
