Jason Voorhees is a fictional character from the Friday the 13th series of slasher films. He first appeared in Friday the 13th (1980), as the son of cook-turned-murderer Mrs. Voorhees, and was portrayed by Ari Lehman. Created by Victor Miller, with contributions by Ron Kurz, Sean S. Cunningham, and Tom Savini, Jason has primarily been an antagonist in the films, whether by stalking and killing the characters, or acting as a psychological threat to the lead character. Since Lehman's portrayal, the character has been represented by numerous actors and stuntmen, sometimes by more than one at a time. Kane Hodder is the most well known of the stuntmen to portray Jason Voorhees, having played the character in four consecutive films. The character's physical appearance has gone through many transformations, with various special makeup effects artists making their mark on the character's design. Filmmakers have given Jason superhuman strength, regenerative powers, and near invulnerability. He has been seen as a sympathetic character, whose motivation for killing has been cited as driven by the immoral actions of his victims. Jason Voorhees is a highly referenced character in popular culture and his signature hockey mask is a widely recognized image.
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328:
Athanasius became the Patriarch of Alexandria. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athanasius_of_Alexandria
1671:
Irish-born Colonel Thomas Blood was caught trying to steal the English Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Blood
1901:
The first Parliament of Australia opened in the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne, exactly 26 years (1927) before it moved to Canberra's Provisional Parliament House, and exactly 87 years (1988) before it moved into the current, over AU$1.1 billion Parliament House . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_Australia
1964:
Ngo Dinh Can, former de facto ruler of central Vietnam under his brother, President of South Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem, was executed by the military junta who took over power after the 1963 South Vietnamese coup. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngo_Dinh_Can
2004:
Akhmad Kadyrov, the first President of the Chechen Republic, and about 30 others were killed by a bomb during a World War II memorial victory parade in Grozny. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhmad_Kadyrov
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theosophic (adj): Of or pertaining to a philosophy that holds that all religions have a portion of the truth http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/theosophic
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The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. --J. M. Barrie http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/J._M._Barrie