• Land of Plenty is a 2004 American drama film directed by Wim Wenders starring Michelle Williams and John Diehl. The title of the film comes from the song...
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  • In a Land of Plenty is a 10-episode British television drama serial produced by Sterling Pictures and Talkback for BBC Two in the United Kingdom. Adapted...
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    Cockaigne (redirect from Cockaigne, Land of)
    (/kɒˈkeɪn/) is a land of plenty in medieval myth, an imaginary place of luxury and ease, comfort and pleasure, opposite to the harshness of medieval peasant...
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  • think of.[better source needed] Cockaigne, the land of plenty in medieval myth, can be considered the predecessor to the modern day cloud cuckoo land. It...
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  • Hard Times in the Land of Plenty is an album by the American band Omar & the Howlers, released in 1987. It was their first album for major label. The title...
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  • "On the Run" and "Land of Plenty". It was also certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), denoting sales of over 500,000 copies...
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  • has performed in more than 140 films and television shows, including Land of Plenty, Stripes, City Limits, Nixon, Jurassic Park III and the TV series Miami...
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    only the 11th-largest land area. The major population centres are Tauranga, Rotorua and Whakatane. The Bay of Plenty is one of the fastest growing regions...
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    television films, including: The Street, True Dare Kiss, Thin Ice, In a Land of Plenty, Boon, Playing the Field, City Central, Peak Practice, The Bill, Pie...
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  • Land of Cockayne is the tenth studio album by the jazz rock band Soft Machine, released in 1981. The title refers to the medieval land of plenty. It would...
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  • Demons in the Land of the Plenty is a 2001 book written by Michael Cuneo and published originally by Doubleday. It follows the experience of Cuneo while...
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    Gloria Stuart (category American people of Scottish descent)
    and renewed attention. Her final film performance was in Wim Wenders' Land of Plenty (2004). In addition to her acting and art careers, Stuart was a lifelong...
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  • and four million records. "How Bizarre" was followed by the singles "Land of Plenty" which reached the top 5 in the New Zealand charts; "Right On" which...
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    which as of 2021, she remains the oldest nominee for the category. Her final film performance was a minor part in Wim Wenders' Land of Plenty (2004), before...
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  • had already appeared in several television projects, the series In a Land of Plenty, television film The Whistle-Blower, series The Inspector Lynley Mysteries...
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  • Sichuan Cookery, published in the United States as Land of Plenty: A Treasury of Authentic Sichuan Cooking, is a 2001 cook book by Fuchsia Dunlop. It...
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    Paradise (category Conceptions of heaven)
    Celts, it was the Fortunate Isle of Mag Mell. For the classical Greeks, the Elysian fields was a paradisiacal land of plenty where adherents hoped the heroic...
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    The Bay of Plenty (Māori: Te Moana-a-Toi) is a large bight along the northern coast of New Zealand's North Island. It stretches 260 kilometres (160 mi)...
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  • Desperate for the chance to send their children to what they call a "land of plenty", a mob of desperate Indians swarms the consulate. As a Belgian aid worker...
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    Omar Dykes, they are best known for the 1987 album Hard Times in the Land of Plenty which sold over half a million copies and whose title song was a top...
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  • singles in New Zealand, including "On the Run" and "Land of Plenty". The song won the award for "Single of the Year" at the 1996 New Zealand Music Awards....
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    Michelle Williams (actress) (category American people of Norwegian descent)
    the film Land of Plenty (2004), which investigates anxiety and disillusionment in a post-9/11 America, with Williams in mind. Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles...
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    Scott Derrickson (category USC School of Cinematic Arts alumni)
    he conceived the story for Land of Plenty for German director Wim Wenders. Derrickson co-wrote and directed The Exorcism of Emily Rose, which was loosely...
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    in collaboration with fellow Chicago musician Bill MacKay, entitled Land of Plenty. It was recorded live during a January 2015 residency at The Whistler...
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  • Pauly Fuemana (category New Zealand people of Niuean descent)
    of "How Bizarre", which overshadowed his other, relatively successful work, such as the singles "On the Run", "Never Coming Back" and "Land of Plenty"...
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    land of plenty, but Bruegel's depiction of Cockaigne and its residents is not meant to be a flattering one. He chooses rather a comic illustration of...
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    Indira Varma (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)
    and narrator. Her film debut and first major role was in Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love. She is known for her television roles, such as playing Niobe in the...
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  • Neil Biswas (category British people of Indian descent)
    Biswas has co-written the Talkback Productions' ten-part adaptation of In a Land of Plenty (screened on BBC2 in 2000). He also wrote the TV serials Second...
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    Hans Trutz in the Land of Plenty (German: Hans Trutz im Schlaraffenland) is a 1917 German silent fantasy film directed by and starring Paul Wegener and...
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    Kelly McGillis (category American people of German descent)
    Stake Land (2010), The Innkeepers (2011), and We Are What We Are (2013). McGillis was born on July 9, 1957, in the Southern California suburb of Newport...
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