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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Today's selected anniversaries:
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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Wiktionary's word of the day:
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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Wikiquote quote of the day:
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>
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