Miler

"I never imagined anything like this for Krtek," says his creator, Mr. Miler, now 90 years old and living in an assisted-living facility.

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Krtek, pronounced KUR-tek , was created in the 1950s by Czech animator Zdenek Miler and quickly became a children's cartoon favorite, spreading across the Communist world, from Eastern Europe to Cuba, Vietnam and China.

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"Besides Miler, only a few other authors wrote plots and stories for Krtek and Miler filtered them very thoroughly," says Jiri Kubicek , who studies animated films at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.

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Steven Naismith and Steven Davis worked a fine move down the Rangers left, Miler rounding matters off with a first-time finish, high into the Aberdeen net.

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Mr. Miler says he racked his brain to come up with an animal that hadn't already been used by Disney.

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Krtek was born after Mr. Miler's bosses at a state-owned film company told him to make an animated movie to teach children how clothing is manufactured.

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"I'm 90 years old, so I don't know how much longer I'm going to be here," says Mr. Miler.

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The pattern is that the authors only descuss big amino acids, while the Miler-Urey experiment produced mostly small amino acids.

An Interesting Pattern 2008

The pattern is that the authors only descuss big amino acids, while the Miler-Urey experiment produced mostly small amino acids.

An Interesting Pattern 2008

GROSS: Oh yeah, I'm glad you brought him up because you do a Roger Miler song I really love on the CD, "Husbands and Wives."

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