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Earl Oliver

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Earl Oliver (born June 23, 1948) is an American writer, musician, variety, street entertainer, and graphic artist. [1]

77 relations: Actor, Aladdin, Attitude Era, Barker (occupation), Blues, Broadcast journalism, Bye Bye Birdie, California Western Railroad, Call centre, Canoe.com, Championship Wrestling from Florida, Clown, Dallas Observer, Diva, Don't Drink the Water (play), Extreme Championship Wrestling, Facilitator, Fire eating, Fort Bragg, California, George M!, Glossary of professional wrestling terms, Gordon Solie, Graphic designer, Hart wrestling family, Heritage railway, History of professional wrestling, Ikon Office Solutions, Indiana, Indianapolis, Internet forum, Jazz, Jingle, KOZT, LA Weekly, Layoff, Los Angeles Times, Magic (illusion), Magician (fantasy), Metropolitan Opera, Miami Herald, New York Post, Nightclub, North Coast Regional Botanic Garden, Northern California, Owen Hart, Poetry reading, Print on demand, Professional wrestling, Professional wrestling championship, Public-access television, ..., Radio advertisement, Ring announcer, Rip Oliver, San Francisco Bay Area, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Public Library, Santa Monica, California, South San Francisco Public Library, Southern California, Sports commentator, Sports Illustrated, Street performance, The Charlotte Observer, The Four Horsemen (professional wrestling), The Magic Castle, The Tampa Tribune, United States Wrestling Association, Variety show, Voice acting, Voice-over, Web design, West Coast of the United States, Willits, California, Winning percentage, World Championship Wrestling, WWE, 1980s professional wrestling boom. Expand index (27 more) »

Actor

An actor (often actress for women; see terminology) is a person who portrays a character in a performance.

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Aladdin

Aladdin (علاء الدين) is a folk tale of Middle Eastern origin.

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Attitude Era

The Attitude Era is a term used by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE, then known as World Wrestling Federation or WWF), professional wrestling fandom and media outlets to describe the company's programming, branded as "WWF Attitude", during the Monday Night Wars period when Monday Night Raw went head-to-head with World Championship Wrestling's (WCW) Monday Nitro in a battle for Nielsen ratings each week during the latter half of the 1990s.

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Barker (occupation)

A barker also known as a carnival barker was a person who attempted to attract patrons to entertainment events, such as a circus or funfair, by exhorting passing public, describing attractions of show and emphasizing variety, novelty, beauty, or some other feature believed to incite listeners to attend entertainment.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Broadcast journalism

Broadcast journalism is the field of news and journals which are "broadcast", that is, published by electrical methods instead of the older methods, such as printed newspapers and posters.

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Bye Bye Birdie

Bye Bye Birdie is a stage musical with a book by Michael Stewart, lyrics by Lee Adams and music by Charles Strouse.

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California Western Railroad

The California Western Railroad, popularly called the Skunk Train, is a heritage railroad in Mendocino County, California, running from the railroad's headquarters in the coastal town of Fort Bragg to the interchange with the Northwestern Pacific Railroad at Willits.

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Call centre

A call centre or call center is a centralised office used for receiving or transmitting a large volume of requests by telephone.

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Canoe.com

Canoe.com is an English-language Canadian portal site and website network, and is a subsidiary of Postmedia Network.

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Championship Wrestling from Florida

Championship Wrestling from Florida (CWF) was the corporate and brand name of the Tampa, Florida wrestling office existing from 1961, when Eddie Graham first bought into the promotion, until 1987, when it closed down.

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Clown

Clowns are comic performers who employ slapstick or similar types of physical comedy, often in a mime style.

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Dallas Observer

The Dallas Observer is a free alternative weekly newspaper distributed in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and headquartered in Dallas.

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Diva

A diva is a celebrated female singer; a woman of outstanding talent in the world of opera, and by extension in theatre, cinema and popular music.

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Don't Drink the Water (play)

Don't Drink the Water is a play written by Woody Allen that premiered on Broadway in 1966.

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Extreme Championship Wrestling

Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) was a professional wrestling promotion that was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1992 by Tod Gordon.

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Facilitator

A facilitator is someone who engages in facilitation—any activity that makes a social process easy or easier.

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Fire eating

Fire eating is the act of putting a flaming object into the mouth and extinguishing it.

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Fort Bragg, California

Fort Bragg is a coastal city along State Route 1 in Mendocino County, California.

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George M!

George M! is a Broadway musical based on the life of George M. Cohan, the biggest Broadway star of his day who was known as "The Man Who Owned Broadway." The book for the musical was written by Michael Stewart, John Pascal, and Francine Pascal.

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Glossary of professional wrestling terms

Professional wrestling has accrued a considerable nomenclature throughout its existence.

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Gordon Solie

Gordon Solie (born Francis Jonard Labiak, later Jonard Pierre Sjoblom, January 26, 1929July 27, 2000), was an American Florida-based professional wrestling play-by-play announcer working for Georgia Championship Wrestling, Championship Wrestling from Florida, USA Championship Wrestling, Continental Championship Wrestling, and World Championship Wrestling.

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Graphic designer

A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography, or motion graphics to create a piece of design.

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Hart wrestling family

The Hart wrestling family, sometimes known as the Hart dynasty is a mainly Canadian family with a significant history within professional wrestling.

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Heritage railway

A heritage railway is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past.

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History of professional wrestling

The history of professional wrestling, as a performing art, started in the early 20th century, with predecessors in funfair and variety strongman and wrestling performances (which often involved match fixing) in the 19th century.

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Ikon Office Solutions

IKON Office Solutions was a company based in Malvern, Pennsylvania.

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Indiana

Indiana is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern and Great Lakes regions of North America.

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Indianapolis

Indianapolis is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the seat of Marion County.

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Internet forum

An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jingle

A jingle is a short song or tune used in advertising, podcasts and for other commercial uses.

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KOZT

KOZT (95.3 FM) The Coast is a radio station broadcasting an Album Oriented Rock format.

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LA Weekly

LA Weekly is a free weekly alternative newspaper in Los Angeles, California.

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Layoff

A layoff is the temporary suspension or permanent termination of employment of an employee or, more commonly, a group of employees (collective layoff) for business reasons, such as personnel management or downsizing an organization.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Magic (illusion)

Magic, along with its subgenres of, and sometimes referred to as illusion, stage magic or street magic is a performing art in which audiences are entertained by staged tricks or illusions of seemingly impossible feats using natural means.

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Magician (fantasy)

An enchanter, enchantress, mage, magician, sorcerer, sorceress, warlock, witch, or wizard, is someone who uses or practices magic derived from supernatural, occult, or arcane sources.

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Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera is an opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

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Miami Herald

The Miami Herald is a daily newspaper owned by the McClatchy Company and headquartered in Doral, Florida, a city in western Miami-Dade County and the Miami metropolitan area, several miles west of downtown Miami.

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New York Post

The New York Post is the fourth-largest newspaper in the United States and a leading digital media publisher that reached more than 57 million unique visitors in the U.S. in January 2017.

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Nightclub

A nightclub, music club or club, is an entertainment venue and bar that usually operates late into the night.

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North Coast Regional Botanic Garden

The North Coast Regional Botanic Garden is a 20 hectare garden located at the corner of Coffs and Hardacre Streets, a kilometre from the centre of Coffs Harbour in the Mid North Coast region of New South Wales, Australia.

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Northern California

Northern California (colloquially known as NorCal or "The Northstate" for the northern interior counties north of Sacramento to the Oregon stateline) is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California.

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Owen Hart

Owen James Hart (May 7, 1965 – May 23, 1999) was a Canadian–American professional and amateur wrestler who worked for several promotions including Stampede Wrestling, New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), where he wrestled under both his own name, and ring name The Blue Blazer.

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Poetry reading

A poetry reading is a public oral recitation or performance of poetry.

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Print on demand

Print-on-demand (POD) is a printing technology and business process in which book copies (or other documents) are not printed until the company receives an order, allowing prints of singular or small quantities.

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Professional wrestling

Professional wrestling (often shortened to pro wrestling or simply wrestling) is a form of sports entertainment which combines athletics with theatrical performance.

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Professional wrestling championship

A championship or title in professional wrestling is a recognition promoted by professional wrestling organizations.

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Public-access television

Public-access television is traditionally a form of non-commercial mass media where the general public can create content television programming which is narrowcast through cable TV specialty channels.

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Radio advertisement

In the United States, commercial radio stations make most of their revenue by selling airtime to be used for running radio advertisements.

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Ring announcer

A ring announcer is an in-ring (and sometimes on-camera) employee or contractor for a boxing, professional wrestling, or mixed martial arts event or promotion, who introduces the competitors to the audience.

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Rip Oliver

Larry Richard Oliver (born October 6, 1952) is an American former professional wrestler, known as "Crippler Rip Oliver" and “Rip Oliver”, who had great success in Pacific Northwest Wrestling.

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San Francisco Bay Area

The San Francisco Bay Area (popularly referred to as the Bay Area) is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco, San Pablo and Suisun estuaries in the northern part of the U.S. state of California.

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San Francisco Chronicle

The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California.

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San Francisco Public Library

The San Francisco Public Library is the public library system of the city of San Francisco.

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Santa Monica, California

Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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South San Francisco Public Library

The South San Francisco Public Library is located in South San Francisco, California, California.

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Southern California

Southern California (colloquially known as SoCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises California's southernmost counties.

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Sports commentator

In sports broadcasting, a sports commentator (also known as sports announcer, sportscaster or play-by-play announcer) gives a running commentary of a game or event in real time, usually during a live broadcast, traditionally delivered in the historical present tense.

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Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated is an American sports magazine owned by Meredith Corporation.

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Street performance

Street performance or busking is the act of performing in public places for gratuities.

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The Charlotte Observer

The Charlotte Observer is a newspaper serving Charlotte and its metro area.

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The Four Horsemen (professional wrestling)

The Four Horsemen was a professional wrestling stable in Jim Crockett Promotions (Mid Atlantic Championship Wrestling) and later World Championship Wrestling.

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The Magic Castle

The Magic Castle, located in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California, is a nightclub for magicians and magic enthusiasts, as well as the clubhouse for the Academy of Magical Arts.

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The Tampa Tribune

The Tampa Tribune was a daily newspaper published in Tampa, Florida.

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United States Wrestling Association

The United States Wrestling Association (USWA) was a professional wrestling promotion based in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Variety show

Variety shows, also known as variety arts or variety entertainment, is entertainment made up of a variety of acts including musical performances, sketch comedy, magic, acrobatics, juggling, and ventriloquism.

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Voice acting

Voice acting is the art of performing voice-overs or providing voices to represent a character or to provide information to an audience or user.

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Voice-over

Voice-over (also known as off-camera or off-stage commentary) is a production technique where a voice—that is not part of the narrative (non-diegetic)—is used in a radio, television production, filmmaking, theatre, or other presentations.

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Web design

Web design encompasses many different skills and disciplines in the production and maintenance of websites.

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West Coast of the United States

The West Coast or Pacific Coast is the coastline along which the contiguous Western United States meets the North Pacific Ocean.

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Willits, California

Willits (formerly Little Lake and Willitsville) is a city in Mendocino County, California, United States.

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Winning percentage

In sports, a winning percentage is the fraction of games or matches a team or individual has won.

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World Championship Wrestling

World Championship Wrestling, Inc. (WCW) was an American professional wrestling promotion, historically based in Atlanta, Georgia.

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WWE

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc., d/b/a WWE, is an American integrated media and entertainment company that primarily is known for professional wrestling.

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1980s professional wrestling boom

The 1980s professional wrestling boom (more commonly referred to as the Golden Age) was a surge in the popularity of professional wrestling in the United States and elsewhere throughout the 1980s.

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Solie's Title Histories, Solie's Vintage Wrestling, Solie.org.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Oliver

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