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John Singleton
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As with other British officers who served in a theatre of war between 1916 and 1918 John Singleton was eligible to claim both the British War Medal 1914-20 and the Victory Medal which he did. According to the Belgian Ministry of Defence Sous-lieutenant Singleton was decorated with the “Croix de Guerre 1940 avec Palme” (Décision du Prince Régent Number 1985, dated 11th Mars 1946) for the following reason:
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John Singleton is the major shareholder of the Macquarie Radio network - Radio 2GB and 2CH in Sydney. He is a partner with Gerry Harvey and Rob Ferguson in the Magic Millions Thoroughbred Racing and Sales company. He is ... a shareholder of Lonely Planet Publications.
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John Singleton, who grew up on the fringes of the black ghetto in South Central Los Angeles, graduated from the prestigious film school at the University of Southern California to begin his career at an interesting moment in Hollywood history. For the early 1990s witnessed, albeit on a small scale, a revisionist revival of the blaxploitation movement that had so energized Hollywood cinema in the 1970s with its anti-establishment celebration of African-American ghetto culture. Blaxploitation classics such as Superfly, The Mack, and Coffy had sometimes glorified the drug dealing, organized crime, and sexual promiscuity they ostensibly condemned, thereby providing a weak critique at best of a dysfunctional culture in the process of being destroyed by middle-class flight, decaying municipal infrastructures, and systemic racism. The spectacularly successful New Jack City, a 1991 film directed by Mario Van Peebles, can be similarly faulted for an exploitative political rhetoric. It is hardly remarkable, therefore, that the four-wall exhibition of New Jack City proved dangerous for theatergoers and theater owners alike. Gang-bangers in attendance reaffirmed their commitment to the lawless lifestyle appealingly depicted on the screen by, in part, shooting up the place and each other.
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John Singleton's action drama "Four Brothers" opened in 2,500 theaters to a better-than-expected $20.7 million in its first weekend, handily beating a trio of other newcomers. One of its main competitors was the Kate Hudson bayou thriller "The Skeleton Key," which unlocked nearly $15.8 million (from about 2,800 theaters) in a comparatively slow weekend at the box office.
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The man who would become the bane of the Union Army in Northern Virginia and a hero of the Confederacy, John Singleton Mosby was born in Edgemont, Virginia, on December 6, 1833. In 1849 he entered the University of Virginia where he shot and wounded a fellow student in a quarrel when the student made a "disagreeable allegation." He was expelled, fined $1,000, and sentenced to six months in jail for "unlawful shooting." The sentence was later annulled by the Virginia General Assembly. Mosby did not waste away time in jail. Becoming interested in law during his trial, he persuaded his attorney to lend him some law books. Mosby was admitted to the bar following his release and opened a law office in Bristol, Virginia.
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John Singleton was born on 30th November 1875 in Newcastle on Tyne, Northumberland. He was educated by private instruction in England and at Antwerp School in Belgium. He was fluent in English, French, German, Dutch, Flemish, Spanish and Russian. He was ... said to have a “good knowledge of machine construction and designing gained by private study”. On 30th October 1897 he married an Elizabeth Thompson at St. Peter’s RC Church in Scarborough but does not appear to have had any children. He was described as being 5’ 6” with dark brown hair, blue eyes and of a sallow complexion.
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